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I was thinking about this a while ago, and I thought it would be a good for new users to understand basic Smogon venues. Tagging skylight since this is pertinent to Mentorship somewhat. Also Vacate since I'm borrowing some material from his Forum 101 idea from some months ago.
Forums
Signing up on the Forums
What is IRC?
If there's anything else I'm missing, I'll be glad to include it. I also think this is getting a tad bit too long and they are different enough to be two separate articles, but it's you call. Thanks for reading!
Forums
Signing up on the Forums
- Explaining the importance of picking a good name (people won't take you seriously if your name is a joke, inappropriate, etc)
- Name change thread and its rules
- Putting in a real email so you can activate your account
- Verification question to stop spam bots
- Link to the rules and explain why they're important.
- Don't be an idiot
- Link to the Smogon Primer to explain the general categories
- Main forums are in a big font, subforums are in a smaller font underneath.
- Explain the relationship between main forums + subforums
- Private forums (IS, Article Workshop, The Kiln, etc.)
- Forums like this one where you can only see your own thread
- How to format
- Adding images and URLs
- Saving and deleting drafts
- Run down of BB Code
- Tagging
- Explain what they are and what they're used for
- Editing your post in a thread
- Deleting your post
- Editing the title of your thread
- Deleting a thread
- Watching a thread (and by extension, watching a forum)
- Liking a post
- How you get them
- Changing alert preferences
- Can see when someone is online
- News Feed
- Changing your avatar
- Adding personal information (Where you live, gender, age, etc)
- Signature
- Recent activity
- How you can get them
- What are infraction points
- "I COULD BE BANNED!!!"
- Badges are visible under your name when you post
- Awarded for contributions (link to Badge FAQ)
- Bigger Avatar file sizes
- Custom Title
- Doesn't mean you don't have to follow the rules
- Shameless advertising for Mentorship Program
What is IRC?
- Explain what it is basically
- It has its own set of rules
- Link to IRC Guide
- Explain how to download an IRC client
- Mibbit and other online clients
- Getting to SynIRC
- Self-explanatory
- Link to hollywood's IRC directory
- Explain ranks
- Official Smogon chan
- What goes on here
- Contact these Mentors: [IRC Mentors]
If there's anything else I'm missing, I'll be glad to include it. I also think this is getting a tad bit too long and they are different enough to be two separate articles, but it's you call. Thanks for reading!