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Subject: New to B-net? here is your guide to becoming a better member!
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First, read:
* The Code of Conduct
* The Forum rules
* The other rules

New members, I welcome you to the Bungie forums and B-net itself! Here in this thread, you can become a better member and become more proficent in comunicating with other people of B-net. Here are easy steps to becoming a great member:

1) Starting on the Bungie forums

Before you start posting over and over again and randomly say hello to everone you see, please don't over do it, you are new here, people demand your respect, and you must respect theirs.

First, familiarize yourself with all the forums:
* The Underground
* The Septagon(which your in)
* New Mombsa
* Zanzibar
* Optimatch(pretty much only useful if you have Xbox Live)
* The Maw
* The Library
* The Gallery
* The News
* Voting Booth
* The Classifieds
* The Flood

First post on a forum:

Your first post in a thread can be anything you want, pick a thread your interested in, and, before you sart ralking about the thread creators topic, read the others post below him, it can be a wide conversation, if thier seems to be a fight, ignore it, you will only get flamed. Instead, write a comment/suggestion/idea or blah blah blah from the subject, it will lead to intelllegent conversation.

Humor and cursing is ok on the Forums, don't do too much of either, it can lead to really bad consequences. I suggest keep your spelling and grammer top notch, resaults will either be someone won't know what your talking about or start to become a smart alic on how to spell. Oh, and that reminds me, keep caps lock to a minimum, it gets annoying and making caps is the equivalent of yelling, so unless it something important, don't, it sucks.
Don't flame, you will be flamed back, so act like a mature peson why the above user should stop his flame, but intellegently.

The guide will be updaed later, oh say tommarow, so bye.

-HaloFighter92



[Edited on 8/2/2005]

  • 08.01.2005 10:32 PM PDT
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Sadly, the people who need to read this probably won't.

  • 08.01.2005 10:36 PM PDT
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Wow man, thats deep....

  • 08.01.2005 10:48 PM PDT

*Sgt

yaaay

  • 08.01.2005 11:27 PM PDT
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..has this not been done before....

  • 08.02.2005 1:15 AM PDT
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It's a good guide but it's been done before and failed. It might fare slightly better in the Flood. The problem is, people are just too ignorant to read. 99% of people who would read this have read all the appropriate material anyway.

Nonetheless, I'd love somebody to prove me wrong because it has the potential to be quite helpful.

  • 08.02.2005 1:17 AM PDT
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I'm new but my bf isn't.

[Edited on 8/2/2005]

  • 08.02.2005 1:26 AM PDT

-Quaere verum.

Got a report? Use the report tool or send a pm.
Chairleg Productions presents: 'Console Wars' and 'Games as Art?' (also on Halo Waypoint).

Yeah. Good idea, but like Psyched, i'm very pessamistic about the fact that the people who should be reading this, probably won't. Nice idea though and it might just help. (Oh, you might want to sort out Optimatch link)

Posted by: Faust
I'm new but my bf isn't.


Well welcome. I hope you have a most enjoyable stay. (If you want to survive, stay away from Zanzibar). I'll say no more ;)

N.B. Oh i was just joking about Zanzibar. It's a great place really. Full of people who are umm very assertive when it comes to their opinions and like a good debate....

Phew. Think i'm safe again.

  • 08.02.2005 2:52 AM PDT
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I never read the rules for B.net...

Maybe I should... Anyway, this would be better placed on the user creation screen.

-TGP-

  • 08.02.2005 5:12 AM PDT
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This is a good guide...

The only problem is that probably only 1% of new people (new people actually willing to commit to the Community) will read this. This is sort of like in "The Underground". You always see topics about Halo, when there is a sticky saying:
THIS IS NOT A HALO BOARD!

  • 08.02.2005 7:33 AM PDT

-Quaere verum.

Got a report? Use the report tool or send a pm.
Chairleg Productions presents: 'Console Wars' and 'Games as Art?' (also on Halo Waypoint).

Posted by: Great_Pretender
I never read the rules for B.net...

Maybe I should... Anyway, this would be better placed on the user creation screen.

-TGP-


Then really, you shouldn't be a member ;)

  • 08.02.2005 7:40 AM PDT

Forum Instructional Video
Posted by: Twitch666
...if there were no drunkards, we today, would have no hobos...and the world would be a boring place.

The video in my sig is also a good guide. It's about the Steam Forums but the stuff they talk about applies to the Bungie ones aswell.

  • 08.02.2005 8:51 AM PDT
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This is the simplest rule: Dont be rude to anyone. Its alot harder than it sounds.

  • 08.02.2005 11:01 AM PDT

4Base Avalanch MELTDOWN
battle is only a prayer.....
.......Better Start PRAYING!!!!!!!
Chapter Founders Bungie's Group Support
Mob of Angry Peasants

Posted by: Halo Fighter92
Moderator Notice: This user has been blacklisted from this forum. Until the user is removed from the blacklist, all posts this user has made have been hidden, and all topics created by this user have been censored.

Hey what happened to this guy?
I didn't get a chance to read the post but from the replies it didn't seem too bad. Did he accidently step on a mod's toes or is the Disembodied Soul unleashing some good ol' Tormented Bungie Havoc again?

[Edited on 8/4/2005]

  • 08.04.2005 5:06 AM PDT

He tempted Shishka.

Edit: The irony is just amazing...

[Edited on 8/4/2005]

  • 08.04.2005 5:09 AM PDT

Discipline is my Sword,
Faith is my Shield,
Do not leap blindly into uncertainty,
And you may live to reap the rewards.

"The Important Thing Is To Never Stop Questioning,"

Not sure. The guide he posted was ok, and not grounds to be blacklisted. Maybe he did someything in another thread though. It happens. Or, could the Soul really be back to his old tricks?

  • 08.04.2005 5:09 AM PDT

4Base Avalanch MELTDOWN
battle is only a prayer.....
.......Better Start PRAYING!!!!!!!
Chapter Founders Bungie's Group Support
Mob of Angry Peasants

Posted by: dmbfan09
He tempted Shishka.

Edit: The irony is just amazing...


Ahh! I see now. Another reason why I stay away from New Mombossa, Zanzibar, and Optimatch. Though it looks like Microsoft needs some better counterintelegence at its facilities. Seems like many people are trying to pry in and spy on the unknown mysterious Bungie's next project.

  • 08.04.2005 5:14 AM PDT