Somehow I like this video. I guess we need to educate people on how to efficiently post in a forum. Stickied, if you guys don't mind.

Unstickied. A set of guidelines is fine, and if anyone wants to draft one, I would be happy to pin it somewhere visible, but there are several issues with this thread.

• The top comment is in the negative, score-wise. That should not be what new users see in a topic if they responsibly choose to look for posting guidelines.
• The video is not clearly linked and would not be obvious to new users
• Both the original post and the video are quite condescending. Being hostile towards new users is precisely the wrong way to introduce them to a forum.

The main rule of thumb is searching the forum (especially the help sections+first few pages of topics) then if you need extra help, ask with proper spelling so people understand you. We are generally nice about it and will just recommend you to be careful, rather than yelling at you like on certain non-calc forums. Proper spelling is even more important on Omni, because a lot of non-English-speaking people use Google Translate since they don't speak English, and Google Translate can't detect typos and spelling errors:

I cum to Omni 4 inspire help dumb-grading me clac end it bing dumb help

Try to translate the above to French

But yeah, in general, on Omni we understand that everyone starts somewhere and I agree with AngelFish.

Weirdly enough, my first posts were not so noobish. But then I became noob before getting what I am now

edit sorry if that sentence is not English but it's the morning and I am in a hurry so I don't check anything

I think some people are more careful at first, then when they feel comfortable around the place, they become more loose.

Lol, I was as well...  I deleted them sometime a few months ago, but I made some big necroposts.

I was in middle school when I joined. Needless to say, I posted like one back then. Anyways, I think we need to give the new users a chance. They will no doubt make mistakes, but we should politely point them out/correct them instead of responding with hostility, and they will soon pick up on proper forum etiquette.

agreed man.
i just learned how to make menus.

You shouldn't have seen that one sig one of our 2006-07 member had. It was literally a bunch of blinking smileys (the smile face above and a darker emoticon) forming a rectangle, spelling his nickname.