Board Customs:
We know we're not TNT and therefore we ultimately have no authority to make you behave a certain way, but we are a long-standing community that has evolved certain customs in response to issues we've faced in the past. These customs also help make us the kind of place where people like coming. So, to make things easier, we'll just say that we'd appreciate it if you follow them on the board.
Things we'd appreciate you did do:
- Read Neopets rules and follow them.
- Be helpful to other people. They're here to get help, too, so spread it around.
- Say hi to new people when they appear. We were all newbies once.
- Be aware that people who come to the board are from many different backgrounds and countries and appreciate that English might not be their first (or second) language.
Things we'd appreciate you didn't do:
- Ask us to rate your neohome. Here's why this is a problem: Number ratings don't mean anything. What's a 3? What's an 8? Also, rating a whole home takes a lot of time and effort. Instead, try asking for feedback on a room or two.
- Post links to your neohome rooms or gardens. While they are the fastest way to get to your room for reference, they are long links and stretch the board. This makes it very hard for people to read back-posts (as some of us do), especially for those people who have lower screen resolutions. Instead, try posting the coordinates for the page. You can find a guide here. If that's seriously too difficult for you or you don't have a link to your neohome in your ULU (something you should consider fixing), you can post a link to your neohome overall - since it's a shorter link and won't stretch the board as badly. It'll look something like this: http://www.neopets.com/neohome.phtml?owner=username
- Copy the rooms of other neohomers in whole or in part without permission. While it's generally fine to put your own twist on someone else's creation, most people generally do prefer if you ask them first.
- Bump or spam: the Spotlights and Galleries chat goes VERY slowly and we're used to that pace over here, but you might not be. Basically, it can take over a day for a topic to fall to the second page of the board, and no one wants to read a page of "bump" or you posting messages to yourself.
- Get horribly and off-puttingly off-topic. It's human nature to wander off-topic from time to time, and it helps us to get to know each other better... but you've also got to be aware that off-topic discussions can hijack the entire thread or scare people off.
- Fight. If you've got a problem with someone else on the thread, play nicely while you're here and take it to neomail. If you absolutely cannot converse with the person, then avoid them or ignore them completely.
- Appear solely for the purpose of advertising your shop, trades or auctions. TNT has made boards for those, and we know where they are. Most of us feel that there are exceptions to this rule, however, if you are giving a "neohomer's discount" equivalent to a reseller offer (because we don't mind a deal now and then) or have an item that only shows up once every few months. Asking us for a price check is also fine... although we might not know offhand.
- Advertise or recruit for your guild. We don't need the squabbling and TNT helpfully made a board for that.
Finally:
Welcome to the PNT thread. Sorry this page was so very long!
