1 Year of Service
This needs an updateTips to make backreading easier:
- The easiest way to engage the community is through gifs, since they're more attention-grabbing.
- Stockpile gifs locally.
- Save interesting ones as you read - yes, it's OK to save the ones people are using.
- Keep a tab open to giphy, google images, etc. to find new ones to use.
- If you don't think you'll reuse it, just copy-paste the image to avoid saving locally.
- If a post is long, skim through it for interesting bits. Sometime you know what someone's saying, since they say similar a lot. You can breeze by those quickly.
- You don't have to react to everything, in fact, don't react to everything.
- These are roughly how I use each reaction, you can do the same or your own.
- If found it humorous,
- If they're being a jerk
- If their content is negative to the community
- If you love what they posted or it's heartfelt in some way
- If you're thinking about it or wondering about something
- If you don't like it or feel bad for them
- If the content is shocking, terrifying, or disturbing
- If the content needs a facepalm (self explanatory)
- If the content makes you angry
- If someone posted something hot
- Everything else (or you're feeling lazy)
All reactions will give 5 coins to the person whose post you react to. And this image shows the amount of change to their reaction score.
You must be registered to see attachments- The mods can't catch everything. Trust me, some of us have read more posts on here than they have. If you see content violating the rules, report it.
- I've reported tons of content that's gotten deleted.
- The rules are there to keep the forum up and running smoothly.
- Some of the content that gets posted is disturbing. We joke and post about using "eye bleach" all the time. Here are some tips when that content is in a thread.
- If it disturbs you, try to avoid it
- Scroll past quickly.
- Watch for marked spoilers and don't open them.
- If you need a break, go to one of the safer image threads where less of that content appears.
- I like redheads, so I made a Redhead Thread where I can give my eyes a break.
- You don't have to make your own, you can check out any that others have made.
- If it's too much, you can skip some pages in your backread to try to avoid it, because the threads do sometimes stay on a topic.
- Don't try to fully catch up every time.
- If I'm more than 20 pages behind, I may know I'm not going to catch up, so I post about it.
- Example of what I might say: "Starting this 20+ page backread, but I won't catch up. Anything fun in these? If not, someone please post some good stuff for when I continue this thanks!
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- Change "good stuff" to a request. People are more likely to ai-generate things for backreaders, since it's a tough job.
- Don't be afraid of saying when you start/end your backread.
- It's one of the "low effort" bits of engagement that the community is OK with.
- Since you're about to spend a bunch of time doing other work for the community, people won't give you a hard time about your post's context being just about the backread.
