Guide How To: Make A Good Thread

Melted · Jan 30, 2016

Dar-krusos said: ↑

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This is what breaks threads.
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Oh my bad. The black font looks like the regular font on my computer.

Enderman1234 · Jan 30, 2016

I suggest adding MAKE IT DARK THEME FRIENDLY
pls no dark blue

vulplus · Jan 30, 2016

Meanwhile: https://forums.wynncraft.com/threads/we-gotta-show-yahya-more-respect.108800/
I've always been a rebel.

MagicGum · Jan 30, 2016

Instructions were unclear, got dick stuck in washing machine. Then, i got married to a goat.

LoveLusting · Jan 31, 2016

Pairjax said: ↑

Thanks a lot! I'm planning on making a general suggestions post for guilds. However, I still think that color on a page looks good if you use it to highlight important items and headers. Is this the case, or should you never do this?
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You've got the right idea. It just looks dumb when people make their ENTIRE post rainbow coloured and in massive text. When its used properly, it looks really nice.

LordMuttonChops said: ↑

...Is this considered useful? https://forums.wynncraft.com/threads/why.107949/
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It's not completely usable information, but its still something new and interesting to us, and that's why I think people liked your post ^^

Icy · Jan 31, 2016

You add more bears to your threads.

klove89 · Jan 31, 2016

This. THIS is a quality post.

Pairjax · Jan 31, 2016

LoveLusting said: ↑

You've got the right idea. It just looks dumb when people make their ENTIRE post rainbow coloured and in massive text. When its used properly, it looks really nice.

It's not completely usable information, but its still something new and interesting to us, and that's why I think people liked your post ^^
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Got it. I was just wondering because it looked okay in some of the posts I've made.

By the way, General Suggestions post in-depth on what we can do to improve Guilds, yay or nay?

TrashcanMan · Jan 31, 2016

I'm surprised that nobody's mentioned grammar and spelling yet. If you want to be taken seriously by the community you should at least attempt to write in proper English.

JohnDSi · Jan 31, 2016

When there's so much shit posting that there needs to be a guide on how to make quality content.

>.> rip wynn forums, pinnacle of quality

>implying what I say is a quality post

Kahsol · Jan 31, 2016

How To: Make A Good Thread
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Don't

ShadowMage1 · Jan 31, 2016

LoveLusting said: ↑

Most of us already know what makes a bad thread, but something that's less talked about is how to make a good thread. Regardless if you get warned for posting useless content, or if you just want to improve your already well-known threads, here are four of my basic tips on how to make a good thread:

1. Useful and Usable

Good content is content that is both useful and usable. Your information should be something that's either new, important, or significant to the reader. If you want to post your opinion on how you don't like the stats on this one dagger, go find a new one, because odds are no one cares. If you want to post about your experience on finding a typo in a quest, you might find it funny, but still, odds are no one cares. That's the reality of things. So before you even start making your post, ask yourself this: Does the forum community need this post?

2. Keep it short

Try to keep your information as short as possible but without losing any detail. Why? Because, odds are again that no one cares enough to read through all of your text, and even if they do care, walls of text are usually intimidating. Don't scare away your readers. Say what needs to be said, no more, no less, no exceptions.

3. Create a Hierarchy of Information

If your post is going to be long, you need to create a visual hierarchy of information. Make sure your most important information is visible at first glance. Use headers to organize your points; bold or italicize unique or important terms. Making a list, like with what I've done on this thread, is also extremely effective—you can literally get a good idea of what this thread is about just by reading my headers.

4. Make sure it's easy on the eyes

Please stop writing in gigantic font. Stop bolding everything. Stop using an absurd amount of colours. If anything, it only makes your post look childish, unprofessional, hard-to-read, and quite frankly, unworthy of being read. My advice is to keep it simple and standard. Never should you use more than two fonts: one for your regular text, one for the headers. If you want to use colours, stick to using 1 or 2 colours only.

Though there are an abundant amount of other, smaller tips I could give everyone, I feel like these four techniques were the most important ones that I needed to get out. But if you want the fundamental, guiding principle on how to make a good thread, remember this: Write for the reader.

Thank you for your time.

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Also, don't be afraid to post your own suggestions on what you think makes a good thread!
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Why not just sticky this? That way we won't lose this thread in the Forum Sea.

MajesticMaj · Jan 31, 2016

This is a great thread for people who are new & need a bit of help on how to make a good thread. Good job! ;)

CheesePrince13 · Feb 1, 2016

Bump because some people really need to read this ;-;

Dawn UwU · Feb 1, 2016

Holy shitposting!

DERN confirmed

FishWaffle · Feb 1, 2016

We need this stickied BADLY, the less shitposts we have, the better. Hopefully this will help newer people to make quality posts.

TheMeteorPhoenix · Feb 2, 2016

So... Is there anything on how to write a good suggestion? We really need some of those.

AetherArising · Feb 2, 2016

MagicGum said: ↑

Instructions were unclear, got dick stuck in washing machine. Then, i got married to a goat.
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Instructions on how to do so were unclear. The goat ended up in a toaster oven and i do not have male genitals due to being female. Oh also my cat managed to find the secret tissue paper room and now i have spent $119438923809584358345803990563890583905 on repairs. Further instructions required pls

Yuno F Gasai · Feb 3, 2016

TheMeteorPhoenix said: ↑

So... Is there anything on how to write a good suggestion? We really need some of those.
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