With the forum and website growing faster each and every day, I thought I'd write up a "best practices" guide to give each of you the best tools you need to top the Leaderboard and prove to the world how unsurpassed in geekiness you truly are.
2) Tag your new threads. When making a new thread, you will see a little white bar at the bottom of the box that says "Enter a few words...". Threads without tags get easily lost over time. Threads with tags can still be found via the tag cloud at the forum homepage. Do yourself a favor and enter relevant tags in all your new threads so people read them and keep reading them. You can even enter your forum name as a tag. Over time, all your new threads will show up as "your name" in the tag cloud. Easy breezy navigation.
3) Comment at oxhorn.com. The Leaderboard considers forum responses, new forum threads and oxhorn.com page comments when it tallies up the highest ranking folks. If you want the best chance at rising the ranks fast, be sure to also comment on movie pages, music pages and character pages at oxhorn.com
4) Include images. No one wants to read a wall of text (I'm guilty of this more than anyone--this thread included, lol). To make your posts more interesting, insert a picture using the IMG button above the text box.
5) "Like" threads. Threads with more likes appear more interesting to readers, who are much more likely to read them. Be sure to click the "Like" button at the top of your new threads to get the ball rolling, and "Like" other threads by talented forum writers. As any classy individual should.
6) Check your spelling. Basic, I know, but important. Your reader's eyes will glaze over and he might go into a coma if your thread is riddled with spelling errors and grammatical mistakes. Use the nice spell-check feature when replying to keep your post free of mistakes. This keeps the internet a cool and classy place. Wait...
7) Give reputation. Next to each user's name is a nice little reputation bar. If you like what a person says, give the person some reputation points. They will get a message in their dashboard telling them how much rep they have been given and who it came from. This will make you much more likely to get positive reputation in the future. Niceness. It's infective.
8) Buy my albums. Kidding, kidding!
Kinda.
