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    New members joining the community

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    - esjay / anakha + all gotgames staff

    First off, just let me say welcome and have fun, having new people in the community is always helpful and provides growth for Australian eSports.

    There seems to be this mentality for people that aren't quite known that GotGames is just the home of abuse and banter where anyone who isn't in the click is shot down and told to leave. Although in the past there has been issues with users posting and abusing others, a lot of the time it's because there is this ideal that to join the community you have to have a persona, either try and be the smartest/funniest or most annoying person in the world or being rebellious against the rules.

    I'm here to encourage you all to post constructively and within the rules, if you just have a good attitude towards your fellow users and not get dragged down into arguments than you will be fine, remember that at any time you can just opt out by pressing the close button; or through PM'ing a moderator to the forums who will gladly help you. We are here to make the forums a fun, safe place and an enjoyable place to visit - but it's made hard by the anti-social behavior of some who take the banter too seriously and view it as a personal vendetta against them.

    Remember, it isn't the first day of high-school, you don't have to go dack the principle so everyone thinks your the coolest kid in school.
    • Be polite and mature
    • don't take banter too seriously
    • treat your fellow gamer with respect
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    • If you have any problems, PM an moderator

    I really want to emphasize the point that the moderators are here to help you, if you ever have any concerns or questions or are just looking for someone who has been around for awhile to chat too/give some pointers than get in contact with us, we have been given this power and asked for not much in return, so whatever we can give back is great for us

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    Basic rules of posting.

    Talking shit will generally get you shut down unless you can back yourself with HARD facts. Here's a tip: Scrim scores aren't hard facts, and neither are any sentences that start or contain the words "i heard" at any point.

    Talking shit to people who are notably better than you at source will generally end badly. They have the upper hand, and all the leverage they need to just laugh at you. Get better, prove that you are better where it counts (hint: not scrims) and then you get a license to talk shit at people who talk shit to you.

    Don't talk in jibberish or shorthand words. If you want to be taken seriously, take the extra 30 seconds to type everything properly in a way that can be easily understood by anyone who has to read what you type. It makes you less likely to come off as some 13-year-old with a big mouth, and more like someone who is actually worth listening to. Just because some trolls decide it's funny to type like that, doesn't mean you'll be cool if you start doing it to fit in.

    Your little inside jokes aren't funny to any of us. Don't post it here.

    Rep points are not important. Rep groups went out of fashion after the first and the greatest one.

    As a general rule of thumb, don't make any new threads until you've been reading and participating in this community, either by posting or playing on gglive, for about 2-3 months. This is not a hard and fast rule, more of a guideline. Abusing the guideline tends to get you abused by random people if they can be bothered.

    "Wabtonio is a blatant troll. Anything he says is generally rubbish and not to be taken seriously."
    Last edited by esjay; 03-02-2010 at 11:28 PM.

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