User blog comment:Wetstream/The Summer of New Users/@comment-24459516-20130602201840

preach it, Wetty.

y'all noobies need to understand that this is a community, not a free-for-all that you can just do whatever you like. We need to keep the place organized so that we all don't end up insane. There are rules, rules that need to be followed, and things that may not be rules but are also very important.

Like the anon thing - if you want your own username, then make an account. Isn't it so much easier than having to say, "oh, yeah, I'm this person btw." and if you forget to say that we have to hunt down your contribs just to see who it is. and most time people don't even care if it's an anon. If you're just a contributer you're really not a part of the community - you're mostly an outsider giving yourself a name.

Also, I'm glad Wetty brought up coding. If you know how to use coding, great, fantastic. I love coding. It's fun and gives you a bit of uniqueness that is otherwise difficult to get on the internet. but when you start adding rainbow gradients and fancing text and all that jazz to stories, it's too much. Really. I like using a solid background for my stories, sure, maybe even have a little bit of a fading gradient to a darker or lighter color. I'll even change the font because the default font for wiki is bleh. And a box at the top for author and the series is fine too. But the amount of acceptability for coding on a story stops there, holy tater tots. Y'all need to chill it with the coding.

and then there's staff. Honestly, guys, I've seen people blatantly disobeying Wetmeister and Redwig. That's not cool. They're staff, they're more respected than any of us, (obviously with the exception of Arti, and even then they're on equal terms) and they need to get that respect back. Just because they can't ban you doesn't mean you can stop listening to them. And soone r or later (hopefully sooner) they will be admins, and they will be able to ban you, so I hope for your sakes that at that point, you are giving them the full respect they deserve.

AND THEN WE MOVE ON TO FANFICS

holy. freaking. goat. milk. guys. If your story is only one paragraph long, I recommend you don't post it. They're considered stub pages on wikia and are nothing but spam and clutter that a normal admin would remove in a heartbeat, but because we're a fanfic site and Arti is cool she mostly lets them stay. And like Wetty said, SPELLCHECK IS YOUR BEST FRIEND. Put your story through Word before you post it, and if you don't have word, there are countless other spellcheck websites that will do it. I literally think one is called spellchecker.com. that's what I use. it's quite useful. and like Wetty said, comments that simply state, "hey, write more" you need to avoid. If the writer wants to write more they will on their own time without your commentary. You can, instead, leave a comment saying what you liked and/or disliked about the story, ways to improve it, instead of spam going "SFKLJSKJFS HAHAHA RIGHT MORE :DDD"

Stareh out~