What do you want to know when joining ENWorld?

[Blue]

We have a strong list of community guidelines which should always be the first place to send new members.

But, let's face it, we have a huge variety of posters. Worldwide reach with different cultures represented. People who played Chainmail when it came out to people who are just joining our hobby. A wide variety of neurodivergent and neurotypical posters and readers, some of whom will do better with a hard list of rules.

So I put this together as a question thread, where you can post your thoughts and they can be voted up and down by others. Reading the Community Guidelines is assumed, everyone is presented those when creating a new account. But what else should folks know?

EDIT: Hmm, can a question thread only have one solution to be voted on per poster?

 

[Snarf Zagyg]

1. People like what they like.

2. Elves are dead-eyed, soulless abominations.

3. It is always a better idea to try and convince someone to try something by telling them that this new thing is good and fun instead of trying to convince them that they are bad or ignorant for liking what they like.

4. There are only two things in the world that I cannot abide; people who are intolerant of the roleplaying choices of others, and bards.

5. You should try and understand why people like what they like instead of assuming people don't know better.

6. I don't know about you, but I take comfort knowing that he's out there. The Dude. Takin' er easy for all us sinners arguing on enworld.

 

[schneeland]

If someone puts you on Ignore, you should probably take a minute to think about why. Sometimes it's a you problem. Sometimes it's a them problem. Sometimes it's a both of you problem.

I agree with most of what you wrote, but this one might pose a challenge. Or rather two.

1. You might not know when someone ignores you (as far as I know you can only check indirectly).
2. If someone ignores you and has two-way ignore as well as hiding ignored content enabled, their content will be hidden for you - so if a discussion seems odd and it appears that you are missing parts of it, that might actually be the case (as I learned only recently).

 

[payn]

Don’t hold onto things to tightly here. This is a great place to hash out ideas or discourse in the Hobby but not to be rude or angry about it.

 

[Tonguez]

2. Elves are dead-eyed, soulless abominations.

how do I up-vote this?