Though I'm new to this place I am by no means new to forums. However, rules and practices vary from forum to forum and I'm trying to figure out the best practices for this one, beyond what's defined in the Terms of Service and the differences between theory and practice.
For example, I would normally post this in a "forum help" section, but the "Introductions" seems to be the closest appropriate place where I have new thread rights. But is this the right place? Should I instead be replying to the TOS thread?
And the TOS guideline "If reading a message thread causes you to come up with an unrelated question, start another message thread." On other forums I would have just asked these questions on my existing "Introductions" thread (assuming Intros is the right place to ask these). Am I implementing this correctly by starting a new thread or should I have just continued on my existing Intro thread?
Then I was trying to figure out how to know new posts have been made on my threads; in other places threads are watched / subscribed and I'll get an alert notification through the forum GUI. Some searching found that subscriptions are disabled here, so what's the best practice, the "New Posts" page?
And then bumping older threads, it seems to be discouraged here? Elsewhere bumping zombie threads is also considered bad practice but not necessarily forbidden, and an appropriate zombie bump would be if the thread still has relevance and the bump adds content of value. So my question about subscriptions / New Posts, I normally would have posed it on the thread I found saying subscriptions were disabled, but it's about half a year old. Am I doing this correctly by asking in a new thread or would it have been preferred to post the question in the old thread?
I apologize for the glut of questions in a single post; just trying to figure things out here with the minimal number of newbie missteps...
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OK now I'm confused. I see an icon on this thread that says I'm subscribed to it, yet the two earlier threads I created lack this, nor do I see a way to subscribe to other people's threads.
For example, I would normally post this in a "forum help" section, but the "Introductions" seems to be the closest appropriate place where I have new thread rights. But is this the right place? Should I instead be replying to the TOS thread?
And the TOS guideline "If reading a message thread causes you to come up with an unrelated question, start another message thread." On other forums I would have just asked these questions on my existing "Introductions" thread (assuming Intros is the right place to ask these). Am I implementing this correctly by starting a new thread or should I have just continued on my existing Intro thread?
Then I was trying to figure out how to know new posts have been made on my threads; in other places threads are watched / subscribed and I'll get an alert notification through the forum GUI. Some searching found that subscriptions are disabled here, so what's the best practice, the "New Posts" page?
And then bumping older threads, it seems to be discouraged here? Elsewhere bumping zombie threads is also considered bad practice but not necessarily forbidden, and an appropriate zombie bump would be if the thread still has relevance and the bump adds content of value. So my question about subscriptions / New Posts, I normally would have posed it on the thread I found saying subscriptions were disabled, but it's about half a year old. Am I doing this correctly by asking in a new thread or would it have been preferred to post the question in the old thread?
I apologize for the glut of questions in a single post; just trying to figure things out here with the minimal number of newbie missteps...
---------- Post added at 12:36 PM ---------- Previous post was at 12:24 PM ----------
OK now I'm confused. I see an icon on this thread that says I'm subscribed to it, yet the two earlier threads I created lack this, nor do I see a way to subscribe to other people's threads.
