- last post: 01.01.0001 12:00 AM PDT
Posted by: Jimmychatt
Because he/she has probably never seen an online forum before, and has almost definitely never posted in one. Therefore the user decided to click on the first forums in the list, and then the first thread in that forum, until said user was able to post something.
You would be surprised how little some people know about using the internet, let alone posting in a forum more complicated than the one on the Gnop! website. People who have never seen anything like it really don't know. I witnessed this myself when someone couldn't figure out at all how to work a forum that works just like this one. And this person was in college (trying to post in the correct ultimate frisbee forum, and thread, had no meaning to her, because she was only focused on being able to get to the point of knowing how to post)
Solution? Well, there could be an interactive java (or something) guide to teach you how to post and to teach you where to post what. It would have to launch automatically when a person first joins as a member, because otherwise no one would see it that needs to.
So, now that I have posted of topic in this thread something that should be in the 7th column, I can say I am setting a good example of what not to do.
And several of these people should have there accounts banned permanently for the language. I mean I cuss up a storm in regular conversation just like anyone else, but there are rules here.
And I would like to say that when I first created my first account (JimmyChattanooga, which mysteriously stopped working correctly with passport) this thread was the one featured on the B.net main page, and was (not immediately but eventually) what guided me in my first playings of Myth.
SHIZAM!
I think that's a really good idea... Also, they should stick in something telling how to link your gamertag to B'net... (I dislike the many posts like that in the Underground)