I haven't been here long, but I've read what seems to be conflicting advice in response to some threads over the past few months. Can I just ask a few questions about "best MN practice" to avoid annoying people?
For example:
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I've seen arguments break out in threads where posters are advised to take their arguments elsewhere because they are distracting from the purpose of the thread. But then posters also seem to complain when they spot a thread about a thread. So which is worse:
a) having a bunfight which hijacks a thread, but is also resolved there? Or
b) starting another thread to fight it out there?
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If I want to talk about a topic that may have been discussed previously, should I:
a) search for existing posts and bump/add to it, or
b) start a new thread and risk everybody yawning at me?
*Certain topics seem to have been done so much that everybody gets pretty annoyed when they come up again. I'm thinking of: BF/FF, mother & child car parking spaces, eating grapes in the supermarket, etc. (There are probably many more that I can't think of at the moment) And yet there will probably always be new mums (& trolls) who join MN and want to talk about those things. What should they do in that case?
Any other useful information/rules/guidelines for a relative newbie who doesn't want to inspire wrath?