Competitive Posting/Debating Guide

Falloutt

The Guide

Tools to use when posting

• Clarity
  • Elaborate further on the subject
  • Give an example to clear up confusion
  • Illustrate what you are trying to get across
• Accuracy
  • How could we check on that?
  • Can we test this or verify if it is true?
• Precision
  • Be more specific
  • Give more detail and be exact
• Relevance
  • Stay on topic and relate to the problem/issue/question
  • How does it help with the issue?
• Depth
  • What are the complexities and difficulties with this problem/subject/issue?
• Breadth
  • Do we and how can we look at this from a different perspective?
  • Do we need to look at all points of view or consider some before passing judgement?
• Logic
  • Does this even make any sense?
  • Is your thread/post fluent and coherent through out?
  • Does your evidence support your post/thread?
• Significance
  • Is this an important issue you are bringing up?
  • Is this a subject we should focus on?
  • Which content are you posting is most significant?
• Fairness
  • Is there any bias?
  • Do I represent/consider all view points equally?

Reasoning

• Purpose
  • What are you trying to accomplish with this thread/post?
  • What is your goal?
• Question
  • What are you addressing?
• Information
  • What information are you using?
  • What are your sources?
  • What do you have to support your claims?
  • What information do you need?
  • Is it valid?
• Conclusions
  • Explain how you interpreted your information and formulated this conclusion
  • Look at different points of view for different conclusions
• Assumptions
  • What assumptions have you used to formulate a conclusion or present a proposal?
  • Which ones have you taken for granted?
• Implications
  • What are you trying to imply?
  • What would be the results of my implications?
• Points of view
  • What is my point if view?
  • Should I look/consider other points of view?

NOTE: This is in the competitive section for a reason, I would appreciate if a MOD stickied this.

ALSO, English is not my first language, sorry if there are any errors.

Thank you for reading, happy posting.

Talonblaze

A good reference for those who wish to make such threads. Not too hard to skim through this list to see if there's parts missing for one's argument on either case.

Stickied.

TH_Reisen

great I hope the quality of the forums posts will get better

[Denxi]

Sticky please.

Pubstarrr

lol, your telling people how to post? This is almost dumber than a guide on making guides.

del1zor1g

Pubstarrr wrote: »

lol, your telling people how to post? This is almost dumber than a guide on making guides.

He's not telling how you post, he's giving you tips on how you can improve your threads and posts.

Also, you used the wrong "you're".

dAIKYU

Pubstarrr wrote: »

lol, your telling people how to post? This is almost dumber than a guide on making guides.

Wouldn't call making a guide on making guides a dumb idea actually, give people tips on what to add in the guide and all that, it could be pretty useful for people.

tGxeNNNNN

kSteal wrote: »

Wouldn't call making a guide on making guides a dumb idea actually, give people tips on what to add in the guide and all that, it could be pretty useful for people.

alex your avatar is scarwy

TCLQwerty

Good list , Nice and short and easy. GJ!

RuyeAhF

good and nice list

lol___Quack

Althought this is a nice guide and I guess deserves the sticky..... The thread has gotten less than 2000 views and it is months old. Obviously nobody wants to read this [crap] and nobody wants to really pay attention to this [crap].

Don't hate me for having a different and better opinion than you.

Falloutt

QuackisAWM wrote: »

Althought this is a nice guide and I guess deserves the sticky..... The thread has gotten less than 2000 views and it is months old. Obviously nobody wants to read this [crap] and nobody wants to really pay attention to this [crap].

Don't hate me for having a different and better opinion than you.

perfectly normal, people run away from things they can't comprehend.

[dot]

threadjack, this being a guideish thread and i'm linking to a guide
i have a feeling its of interest to this group in particular, but doubt you all venture in to the suggestions section to find it yourselves.

mouse accel removal. can't speak to whether or not it works as i'm not interested, but worth a shot.

http://forum.z8games.com/showthread.php?p=3455133

[Denxi]

[MOD]dot wrote: »

threadjack, this being a guideish thread and i'm linking to a guide
i have a feeling its of interest to this group in particular, but doubt you all venture in to the suggestions section to find it yourselves.

mouse accel removal. can't speak to whether or not it works as i'm not interested, but worth a shot.

http://forum.z8games.com/showthread.php?p=3455133

I haven't tried it, but I can't imagine it would. Obviously i don't know much on the subject, but I was under the impression that the game itself was applying mouse accel.

I'd be more than happy to be proven wrong however :O

2fastSTREAK

[MOD]Denxi wrote: »

I haven't tried it, but I can't imagine it would. Obviously i don't know much on the subject, but I was under the impression that the game itself was applying mouse accel.

I'd be more than happy to be proven wrong however :O

I don't actually understand it since I thought the mouse accel was built into the engine, however I tried it and it did remove the acceleration.

[Denxi]

2fastSTREAK wrote: »

I don't actually understand it since I thought the mouse accel was built into the engine, however I tried it and it did remove the acceleration.

I'll have to try it.

Actually, when you say it was removed, did you try playing on another game and then coming back to CF? It makes it easier to notice.