A Survival Guide For New Users

[tomboyy]

I'd add:

When you post, try to think of how you can make a positive contribution to the thread. What information did the original poster want that you can add? What good, rational arguments can you muster to support the opinion you are about to write? It is often easy to identify and name and describe a problem, but it is far harder (and much more useful) to propose solutions to it.

Second, give other people the benefit of the doubt. If you think someone MIGHT be trolling, or MIGHT be insulting you, assume they're not. The worst that can happen is that you'll write a nice post that wasn't really needed.

True... Something I myself should do more.

<-------The pub patrons..... the pub sucks

 

[adurso]

I would add: there is no way to determine context lacking physical cues such as smiles, playful tone, winks, nudges and so.

So try to interpret what is written in the best light until shown otherwise.

And do stop by the Pub and express an opinion, all are valued...

 

[MXGratefulDiver]

Get a BP/W ... it'll solve all your diving problems ... and the chics'll think you're ripped ...

... Bob (Grateful Diver)

 

[Paladin]

Get a BP/W ... it'll solve all your diving problems ... and the chics'll think you're ripped ...

... Bob (Grateful Diver)

Nah! Get an old double hose regulator and a tank with a J valve, a capillary depth gauge, no BC, SPG or computer. Then the chicks will think you're a real macho, he-man diver!

 

[Purple Jos]

Nah! Get an old double hose regulator and a tank with a J valve, a capillary depth gauge, no BC, SPG or computer. Then the chicks will think you're a real macho, he-man diver!

and a huge pig-sticker knife!

(sorry so far off topic)

 

[Jax]

Get a BP/W ... it'll solve all your diving problems ... and the chics'll think you're ripped ...

... Bob (Grateful Diver)

Nah! Get an old double hose regulator and a tank with a J valve, a capillary depth gauge, no BC, SPG or computer. Then the chicks will think you're a real macho, he-man diver!

and a huge pig-sticker knife!

(sorry so far off topic)

And feel free to throw a BS flag on the play! :scorned:

 

[Jax]

* If you do post a question, and the answers are not quite what you expected (not to be confused with what you wanted to hear), it's perfectly okay and well-received to write,

"Let me try phrasing this another way . . . "

To the sender lies the responsibility that the correct message is received.

 

[Crush]

Get a BP/W ... it'll solve all your diving problems ... and the chics'll think you're ripped ...

... Bob (Grateful Diver)

You forgot ScubaPro Jet Fins, black.

 

[Thalassamania]

You forgot ScubaPro Jet Fins, black.

Jets are for winps ... Duckfeet, preferably gum.

 

[tomboyy]

thats right, Rockets are what real men wear