Writing

When writing text for others to read, keep your audience in mind.

Explain your ideas as clearly as you can to help avoid misunderstandings. In the forums you can achieve this by keeping your posts short and on-topic, instead of one long rambling post that makes many points, it is usually better to write several shorter ones (perhaps in separate forums).

Re-edit your text as much as necessary until you get it right. Even in forum posts you have maxeditingtime/60) ?> minutes after you've posted it to go back and improve it if necessary.

When replying to others, try and think of interesting questions you can ask them. This will help both you and them think about the issue at hand.