Shouting

Please use the 'shout' command with discretion. At the time of writing this, the shouts are far too frequent and too numerous for people to really pay attention to what is being shouted, and accordingly, many people have toggled shouts off. This makes any shout less effective.

Here again, fmc has given suggestions as to what absolutely should NEVER be shouted:

And further, he concludes, it is not a good idea to shout every 15 seconds asking for a game, it just increases the noise and makes even more people ignore both shouts in general, and shouts by you in particular. Also, once you are considered a 'shouter', nobody will take heed of what you shout.

It is important to notice, that for these reasons in particular, tim has implemented the channels as a semi-private way of exchanging messages. Channels are in no way restricted by the admins, so that's a good way for any discussion of any group smaller than IGS as a whole.

Continue to "Kibitzing".

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