Bit Confused...

[MrMeme260]

i dont understand when people mention about threads and dont want to hijack them.

Can anyone share to explain?

[Murdoch17]

@MrMeme260 It means to take over the thread someone else starts, and give it a new direction, or purpose. Such as, Let's say, I have my Adventurers Evil train tropic, and someone came on and asked if they could plug their brand new LEGO Idea for *Insert pop culture item here* TV show. Then everyone else starts talking about said item, and not about what the stated direction of the thread is (The Adventurers train). This new person has, in effect, derailed the topic to their idea of a new topic. Generally, this is frowned up on Eurobricks with a few exceptions, and also, LEGO Ideas promotions are a specific no-no. Since we are covering the rules of the road, (if the @Eurobricks moderating team want to jump in be my guest!) Other assorted things to avoid are:

- dredging up very old (like older than page 2 or 3 is my rule) topics you did not create unless there is a VERY good reason to dredge then up: such as when a digital build becomes real, for example. I do that frequently with my LDD projects... but I'm trying to get better at that. This is called bumping.

- asking for instructions. I used to do it, we've all done it a some point, but not everybody gives away (like the person writing this post and others) or has stores selling instructions of their models / custom parts.(like @SavaTheAggie or @zephyr1934)

-The already stated thread hijacking.

Anybody else want to help me out here, that's all I can think of? @JopieK is the moderator of this forum section.

Edited September 28, 2020 by Murdoch17

[JaBaCaDaBra]

Just ask Google, "net etiquette and forum rules".
You will instantly find everything you always wanted to know about the web but were affraid to ask for.

One addition that is rarely stated, do not underline text if its not a link, thats very irritating.

Edited September 28, 2020 by JaBaCaDaBra

[JopieK]

Well, it is just common sense. If you post in very old topics (like you did from 2017 e.g.), it will be hard to get a good conversation about it. There is a lot of knowledge here so Eurobricks is a great place also if you want to get people to like you, maybe you can start with share something about yourself, ideally with some work of yours. Then it will be much easier to engage with others. Below my post there are also useful links on the rules, so also feel free to ask others like you did in here. Sometimes also difficult, but also try to mind your capital letters / punctuation.

[Roadmonkeytj]

If it's something that you absolutely must know and can not find an answer by searching then create a new topic asking if anyone active knows anything about what your asking then link the old thread in your new topic

[MrMeme260]

On 9/28/2020 at 8:38 PM, JaBaCaDaBra said:

do not underline text if its not a link

mate you just did it right now

[JaBaCaDaBra]

16 hours ago, MrMeme260 said:

mate you just did it right now

You just found out how irritating it is.
However you didn't get the queste of an example.