as the first n00b here, good job. I probably am the only n00b to read this. Sucks for them.

EDIT: second n00b

[QUOTE=HeavyRiva]I suppose if I had called this thread "Maynard sux" more noobs would have read it... :)[/QUOTE]

:lol: They would've responded like "wut?1 R U ****ing nsain? Maynerd is da best sing er n da world, biatch! LOL, U probly listen to Whitesnake!"...

Hooray for Riva! I like the use of quotes. Very clever.

good work even though noobs might not read it beforehad(i am ashamed of my own noobiness)

it needs to be updated though, the search is back up

Updated it with the section on the search function.

Very good Riva :thumb:

not [I]all[/I] noobs are stoopid you know. But i'll probably have some pretty stupid posts, so go ahead, continue making fun of us.

[QUOTE=savemyaxe]not [I]all[/I] noobs are stoopid you know. But i'll probably have some pretty stupid posts, so go ahead, continue making fun of us.[/QUOTE]
I think you missed the point somewhat. Riva is not making fun of you, simply trying to help educate users into becoming great posters.

Updated to include a new (very brief) tutorial for the search function. If all the regulars subscribe to this thread, and post this in all those crappy threads, (you know the ones I mean) then this could actually register with noobs.

I am reasonably new, it has helped me a lot, I really appreciated your time making this thread, Applause all round :D

Good thread about making good threads Jason.

You know after seeing some of the threads made recently I think mabye this needs to be a little closer to page one then before.

To be fair, R&M has been really great lately. Still, it's nice to see this thread near the top again. :)

[QUOTE=HeavyRiva]To be fair, R&M has been really great lately. Still, it's nice to see this thread near the top again. :)[/QUOTE]

True, I didn't mean to say that MX was bad off, sorry if I seemed like complaining, I just felt your instruction on the Search function would be very helpful to a lot of people making threads :)

[QUOTE=pigonthewing82]True, I didn't mean to say that MX was bad off, sorry if I seemed like complaining, I just felt your instruction on the Search function would be very helpful to a lot of people making threads :)[/QUOTE]

Hehe, pity nobody is willing to read the big blocks of text. :-/

[QUOTE=thechad202]Also, even if the search was down for whatever reason, users can use most [URL=http://www.google.com]search engines[/URL] to search within the musician forums domain.

With google go into advanced search and type 'www.musicianforums.com' into the 'return results from this domain only' field and then just type your query in the regular way.

This isn't nearly as good as the in-built search feature here, but I found it useful when the search was disabled after the crash.[/QUOTE]

Hehe, I did that as well. Didn't know about the ability to add domain names though.

Bumpage++++

Thought this should be bumped. :)

Why thank you Schyma.

Hats Off To Roy Harper ;)

time to bring this back from the pits of hell.

Haha, thanks Aaron. /me brushes dust and hellspawn off of thread.

[QUOTE=savemyaxe]not [I]all[/I] noobs are stoopid you know. But i'll probably have some pretty stupid posts, so go ahead, continue making fun of us.[/QUOTE]
Agreed. Im not saying im a really smart noob but not all are retards.
Although there are a lot of idiot noobs, but ive seen some dumb posts from people who have thousands of posts.

[QUOTE=Pitch White]Agreed. Im not saying im a really smart noob but not all are retards.
Although there are a lot of idiot noobs, but ive seen some dumb posts from people who have thousands of posts.[/QUOTE]
Of course not all new user suck. It is just that right now there a lot of them that do suck, which is why I bumped this.

[QUOTE=Pitch White]Agreed. Im not saying im a really smart noob but not all are retards.
Although there are a lot of idiot noobs, but ive seen some dumb posts from people who have thousands of posts.[/QUOTE]

This isn't to make fun of noobs. This isn't to applaud people with large postcounts. This is simply a tutorial to help with making threads.

I've updated the first Quick Tip, regarding the search function.

Good update, Jason. It's extremely lame and just a ridiculous excuse when people say "Oh, I used the search function but there are no results" or "I looked back a page and didn't see anything, so I made a thread." People just need to exercise a bit of patience and stop being so near-sighted in their searching visions.

I must say, this is in dire need of a bump. Hopefully a few people will read this.

I dont think this needed to be bumped. R&M looks fine to me :confused:

[QUOTE=Gilmour]I dont think this needed to be bumped. R&M looks fine to me :confused:[/QUOTE]
[url]http://www.musicianforums.com/forums/showthread.php?t=428903[/url]
[url]http://www.musicianforums.com/forums/showthread.php?t=428972[/url]
Does it?

People always have and always will make threads like that, and those are the same people who aren't reading the rules and aren't going to read this thread. Those examples are minor inconveniences, and R&M isn't ever going to be completely free of them.

[QUOTE=Doctor Night V.2.0][url]http://www.musicianforums.com/forums/showthread.php?t=428903[/url]
[url]http://www.musicianforums.com/forums/showthread.php?t=428972[/url]
Does it?[/QUOTE]
A couple of bad threads a day? o noez!

We could start off by perma-banning the complete idiots. That might help.

[QUOTE=Gilmour]A couple of bad threads a day? o noez![/QUOTE]
Believe me, there's way more than a couple a day.

[QUOTE]We could start off by perma-banning the complete idiots. That might help.[/QUOTE]

And what makes you think that they won't register a new account? There is no way to keep ANYONE off the board.

[QUOTE=Mister Blue Sky]And what makes you think that they won't register a new account? There is no way to keep ANYONE off the board.[/QUOTE]
There damn well needs to be. But I guess it can't be helped. Oh well.
*sigh*

[QUOTE=Doctor Night V.2.0]Believe me, there's way more than a couple a day.[/QUOTE]
You dont even know what a bad R&M looks like.

[QUOTE]There damn well needs to be. But I guess it can't be helped. Oh well.
*sigh*[/QUOTE]

IP bans won't work because all they have to do is go through a proxy and they can access the site.

[QUOTE=Mister Blue Sky]IP bans won't work because all they have to do is go through a proxy and they can access the site.[/QUOTE]

Either way, it's better to try and chance new users and make them better than it is to permanently restrict them from accessein the site.

i guess you could call me a noob :rolleyes:

it really annoys me when there are threads of the band they start a thread about on the same page... makes me wanna:smash: their head in.