Welcome to OTF! (Official Guide for Off Topic Forum Beginners)

Hello! If you are new to the forums, this is the thread for you. Here are some helpful pieces of info you will need to know before making your first comments and threads!

Rules:

1. No political or Religious comments or threads.

2. No spamming. This includes the following:

Repeating the same words

Writing Jiberish

Only speaking about troll topics (Brainrot, 67, etc)

3. No cursing, cyber-bullying, racism, or sexual harassment on any forums.

4. No cheating discussion.

Those are just the basic terms of service rules. However, if you truly want to be welcomed and respected in the forum community, here are some pieces of advice that I would give to you.

1. Only create a few threads a month. (5 maximum)!

Anymore than 5 and you will be considered a spammer, even if your topics aren’t irrelevant. When you repeatedly post threads, it can come off as socially awkward and can cause the community to title you as a “useless forumer.”

2. Don’t make useless forums….

Even if a thread doesn’t violate the rules, it doesn’t mean that it is useful. Make sure that any of the threads you post are either helpful to the community or are relevant/interesting topics to discuss.

3. Respect your OTF elders.

Pretty quickly on these forums you will get burnt if you are in anyways disrespectful to the wrong people. These people are the ones who have made forums that gain thousands of comments and/or have a lot of respect in the community. The main ones are:

@BasixWhiteBoy
@Sir_TrashPanda
@Sawdof

These 3 are well respected forumers who will not tolerate any sort of disrespect towards themselves or any others in the community. There are several other forumers like this as well, these are just 3 examples.

4. Don’t bump unnecessarily.

If you come across a forum that hasn’t been commented on months or even years, please don’t comment on it. The forum likely has died for a reason, and should be left to be forgotten. Bumping threads is a muteable offense.

5. Comment (relevant) stuff on popular threads.

This is one idea I have never personally tried much of, but I believe it’s a good way to begin your OTF career. If you gain respect on a high-quality thread for comments that are interesting, important, or deserve discussion, that is a quick way to also gain respect from others. That is a good way to begin making friends in the community as well.

Although there are definitely more things I could go over, this advice should be helpful for anyone who is a first timer in the off topic forums. If anyone has any suggestions of rules/pieces of advice I should add, feel free to let me know. In terms of anybody new who reads this: Enjoy OTF!

I'M in charge of this niche smh get your own schtick/j

Hmm good thread for the current circumstances

Welp…. Just realized that this is a ripoff of dead’s forum. Had no clue there was another one. My bad fam.

We can just let my 20 minutes of hard work die now… 💀 🥀

Well that’s sad that you worked for 20 minutes on that, and barely anyone is going to comment

i still read it all if that matters

😢feeling sad for u buddy

Coming from the gcd guy btw /j

#9 yep. Smthn tells me I should just stay there 😭 🤡

Bump yo ts pretty useful

#10 nah your staying with us for a long time...

#12 what’s that mean 💀

#11 thanks man but I think this is a bit to similar to “OTF for newbies” or whatever it’s called

I actually read until the mobile app cut off the rest 😭

#15 rip 😭

#15 so did I

That's ok. Sometimes reiteration is necessary. We all know that there are some in the community that don't quite get it the first time, or the second, or the third.. etc, etc, etc.

Good point 👍🏻