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Do you mean you are new to Forums? Or to this website?
If you are new to website this is how it goes down.
The Frontpage
The frontpage is were you can were you can find all the important news stories"Top New Stories". The only one's that you'll be seeing post here are Frankie, and SketchFactor.
At the bottom of the frontpage you can find member/moderator news that is still important. If you have something that you think is important to the Bungie Community you can submit it at the top right on the "News". Remember the only way to get it on the Frontpage is it approved by a Moderator or someone else higher then that.
More further down the page you can find last week's news stories. There these stories I like to call them "Refresher" for some reason, but Im won't get into that.
Forums
The forums here on Bungie.net are all different, remember that. They consist of
The Underground
Here you can Chit-Chat about older games of Bungie, like Marathon, Myth and etc.
The Septagon
This is were you can talk about improving the b.net forums as well as user groups.
New Mombasa
Name say's it all, basic Halo chit-chat. Discusse Campaign here too.
Zanzibar
In the Zanzibar you can talk about cheaters, games you played and a bunch of other stuff. Basic Multiplayer if it's Lan or Live.
Optimatch
Once again Name say all. Playlists and more
The Maw
One of my favourite forums, Talk about Halo: Comabt Evolved for the PC or Halo: Custom Edition
The Library
This is all aorund everything for the XBox Halo.
The Gallery
Here you can look at some pretty cool photos that are never updated
The News
This is where you can post in "Top New Stories"
Voting Booth
Take Official Bungie Polls here
The Classifieds
Recuirt for groups, websites, and clan.
The Flood
Off Topic Chat, say stupid things here.
Stickies, Locks, and gold Symbols
In the forums, you'll notice that there alot of posts near the top, these are called Stickies, and Locked Stickies. Stickies are important stuff that people can reply too. Locked Stickies are for the good of the sticky, it will keep out spammers. Now if you browse through the forums, you'll see a couple of Gold posts. If you see one of these that means someone of importance posted here like, Frankie a.k.a. Content Monkey or SketchFactor.
Now you are probably wondering how do I make a sticky? Well you have to have a Moderator approve this as a stickie.
Members, Moderators, Staff and more
This is a little chart I made to explain this.
Member
How to Become one - Join Bungie.net
What do they do - Post, Reply and sumbit News
Moderators
How to become one - [/i]Not Listed[/i]
What do they do - Bring peace to the forums, and be cool
Bungie Staff
How to become one - Be on Bungie Staff (ex: Marty the Elder)
What do they do - Basically nothing, the only one ever on in Marty the Elder
Content Monkey, Community Guy, B.net Overlord and Bungie.net Superuser.
How to become one - You'll never be one, so don't ask
What do they do - The Cooler Stuff
Trolls and Spammers
Don't like 'em spam up up the forums with crap. Don't feed them. ; )
Groups
Groups is a great way to get into the Bungie.net Community, creating and moderatoring your own forums can be fun if your group is popular. By creating a group you must go here. Remember to read the TOS, COC and fill out everything correct.
Now maybe you don't want to create a group, maybe you just want to join 'em. Well all you do is when browind a group you click near the name at the top that says "Join this group" Now when you click that you can espect one of the two. "You joined this group" or "you were added to member query. If you see member query, that just means that it is more of a gorup that picks certain people.
EX: HFCS, this is a private group for Moderators. Don't ask & Don't join.
If you want to find a group that has your kind of interestest, you can search for one by clicking here. There are alot of search opitions so, you'll never get a good search without filling out most of it.
Themes & Avatars
I don't really want to be here all night posting about this, but just click here to read more.
There is a bunch more to talk about, but this is the basic stuff.
Enjoy your stay.
[Edited on 9/3/2005]