For me, it was that the Internet never forgets and that you should never enter your real name. In my opinion, both of these rules are now completely ignored.

  • Zorsith@lemmy.blahaj.zone
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    18 hours ago

    Basic forum etiquette. It’s horrifying at work seeing teams “teams” (forums) used like chats, all the cross-posting and thread necromancy, people completely unable to keep topics confined to the appropriate sub-forum, etc

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      16 hours ago

      thread necromancy

      AKA “discussing something with new information more than 31 seconds after people got bored of it”

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        11 hours ago

        Necroposting is a slur by the terminally online against normal people trying to get shot done. They’re the reason why every Google search that leads to a forum ends with some guy asking your question and being told to start a new thread instead.