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I am working on a list of Player Types in General Discussion.
It's gotten quite large, and I'm thinking it might be appropriate to post it here.
I've never written anything I would call a guide before, and I don't want to be presumptuous, so what's the protocol? Should a person have some certain level of experience to post a "guide"? Or just post, and if it's not appropriate for the Guides section, people will "provide guidance"?
Also, it looks to me you handle updates by editing the first post as long as you can, then reposting as much as is needed in the same thread. If you make significant revisions, then you start a new thread with a new version, etc. Is that about right?
Thanks!
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Posting a guide here will ensure it doesn't get aged out, so, post it here. Also post it at the tail end of the Guide to Guide thread, a lot of people follow that thread as a marked favorite.
I've been waiting for forum migration to update the Guide to Guides and that's coming.... sometime.
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Danke!
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Also, it looks to me you handle updates by editing the first post as long as you can, then reposting as much as is needed in the same thread. If you make significant revisions, then you start a new thread with a new version, etc. Is that about right?
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Hit the nail on the head, that's what people usually do.
Don't worry about your "guide writing exprience" or lack thereof. Just like IN-GAME, everyone has to start sometime.
Here's a tip, try using FOE, it should make writing your guide much easier, more colorful and more entertaining! A link to the application is in my signature. 
As far as how to format a guide, just take a look at a few of the guides out there to see what people usually do. I have a few in my sig that you can take a look at to get started. 
Format's simple. It's a list. With a few sublists that actually use the LIST tag. That I'm sick of adding tags to manually in Wordpad.
That FOE looks like a significant time saver! I've been looking for a BBCode editor I was happy with. Welcome to the competition!
I am working on a list of Player Types in General Discussion.
It's gotten quite large, and I'm thinking it might be appropriate to post it here.
I've never written anything I would call a guide before, and I don't want to be presumptuous, so what's the protocol? Should a person have some certain level of experience to post a "guide"? Or just post, and if it's not appropriate for the Guides section, people will "provide guidance"?
Also, it looks to me you handle updates by editing the first post as long as you can, then reposting as much as is needed in the same thread. If you make significant revisions, then you start a new thread with a new version, etc. Is that about right?
Thanks!