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Sat 29/12/01 at 17:32
Regular
Posts: 787
Ok, here are some guidelines to assist you in fitting in with the folk at SR.
Follow them and you will find endless hours of chatting and potential free games/movies.
Ignore them and...*shrugs*...it'll be like the last 4 days, only worse.
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1. DO NOT COPY REVIEWS
You will get found out. And to copy a review means you are a hack writer and a big nancy that probably wears dresses.
Use your own thoughts and feelings, a review should give a personal comment on the game. To copy is to rip someone off that has spent a while actually being creative and imaginative. Therefore you are neither by simply ALT C + ALT V.
SR employ a crack team of checkers, and some regulars seem to spend their time checking reviews, so you WILL get found out.

2. USE CORRECT GRAMMER, SPELLING ETC
It's not hard. Most of us have been able to do it since we were at primary school. This is not a mobile phone screen, and txt spk is rlly annoying.
M8.
When the primary method of communication is writing, to fall back on lazy typos and quick-spelling shortcuts highlights a lack of schooling and a general defecit in social skills.

3. THIS IS NOT A CHAT "UP" ROOM
Female gamers are a rarity enough, but when some tree-dwellers crash in and start asking for phone numbers and addresses, you are scary and probably a deviant.
We have some girls here, and they have weathered initial "Hey baby" comments to become accepted.
So leave them alone and, for chrissakes, your already on the net - go look at porn.

4. DO NOT COMPLAIN ABOUT PEOPLE WINNING GAD
They worked hard and got lucky, you didn't. Deal with it.
It's even in the rules "No complaining, nobody likes a whinger".
Just accept the fact that you didn't win that day, so next time try harder.

5. DON'T EVER QUESTION STAFF OR NOTABLES
Because we'll ban your monkey-ass in a millisecond. Especially Snuggly - he's a demon.
Although he does have nice hair and uses cologne.

6. CONSOLE WARS ARE RUBBISH
They are consoles, they are unable to partake in war of any kind. These conversations have been done to death, spin an angle to make it interesting.

7. POST CRAP AND GET ELECTED NOTABLE
Hey, worked for me.

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These are not rules, these are guidelines.
Not every newbie is a windowlicker, and not every Notable is a wise-man.
Tony, Snuggly, Loki and Bob are the leaders.
Obey them.
(except for Snuggly, he's a punk)
Sat 29/12/01 at 18:27
Regular
"Infantalised Forums"
Posts: 23,089
Shh, you'll blow our reps as Notables.

We don't make mistakes, remember?
Sat 29/12/01 at 17:45
"High polygon count"
Posts: 15,624
Goatboy wrote:
> 2. USE CORRECT GRAMMER, SPELLING ETC
> It's not hard.

Spelling shouldn't be hard, but grammAr is tougher...

;-p
Sat 29/12/01 at 17:37
Regular
"I won the turnips!!"
Posts: 905
Mmmmmmm, got any advice for JAT's? I'll start with the most noticed one I have seen and read - DON'T TALK IN TEXT SPEAK!

i.e : wat iz ur favrit gam? min iz dvl my cy. etc
Sat 29/12/01 at 17:32
Regular
"Infantalised Forums"
Posts: 23,089
Ok, here are some guidelines to assist you in fitting in with the folk at SR.
Follow them and you will find endless hours of chatting and potential free games/movies.
Ignore them and...*shrugs*...it'll be like the last 4 days, only worse.
----------

1. DO NOT COPY REVIEWS
You will get found out. And to copy a review means you are a hack writer and a big nancy that probably wears dresses.
Use your own thoughts and feelings, a review should give a personal comment on the game. To copy is to rip someone off that has spent a while actually being creative and imaginative. Therefore you are neither by simply ALT C + ALT V.
SR employ a crack team of checkers, and some regulars seem to spend their time checking reviews, so you WILL get found out.

2. USE CORRECT GRAMMER, SPELLING ETC
It's not hard. Most of us have been able to do it since we were at primary school. This is not a mobile phone screen, and txt spk is rlly annoying.
M8.
When the primary method of communication is writing, to fall back on lazy typos and quick-spelling shortcuts highlights a lack of schooling and a general defecit in social skills.

3. THIS IS NOT A CHAT "UP" ROOM
Female gamers are a rarity enough, but when some tree-dwellers crash in and start asking for phone numbers and addresses, you are scary and probably a deviant.
We have some girls here, and they have weathered initial "Hey baby" comments to become accepted.
So leave them alone and, for chrissakes, your already on the net - go look at porn.

4. DO NOT COMPLAIN ABOUT PEOPLE WINNING GAD
They worked hard and got lucky, you didn't. Deal with it.
It's even in the rules "No complaining, nobody likes a whinger".
Just accept the fact that you didn't win that day, so next time try harder.

5. DON'T EVER QUESTION STAFF OR NOTABLES
Because we'll ban your monkey-ass in a millisecond. Especially Snuggly - he's a demon.
Although he does have nice hair and uses cologne.

6. CONSOLE WARS ARE RUBBISH
They are consoles, they are unable to partake in war of any kind. These conversations have been done to death, spin an angle to make it interesting.

7. POST CRAP AND GET ELECTED NOTABLE
Hey, worked for me.

-----

These are not rules, these are guidelines.
Not every newbie is a windowlicker, and not every Notable is a wise-man.
Tony, Snuggly, Loki and Bob are the leaders.
Obey them.
(except for Snuggly, he's a punk)

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