Rules for new members - PART DEUX!

[MoviePropMaster2008]

Though I encourage anyone to try their hand at contributing to IMFDB, please note that if you don't know what you're talking about .... Don't change the pages!!!!!!!!!

(a) Make sure your information is true/factual/correct before changing an established page. Especially if the page is a complete or established page that has been edited over and over again by experienced SuperUsers or Mods. It gets tiresome to '''undo''' edits made by anonymous new users with no accounts, and those edits are wrong.

(b) If the information is good and you're corrected a mistake, then by all means ... do it! No one should get annoyed or threatened if you make changes that are correct. The caveat to this is that you must be RIGHT.

(c) I've reiterated this before, improving the site is for the benefit of everyone. If someone (well....a lot of times its me ) REPLACES your gun photo with a much better pic, don't get pissed off about it. If anyone replaces your screenshot with a much better version of the same shot, then don't get pissed about it. I know it seems like someone is stepping on your toes, but seriously. People in the past have made corrections to pages I've worked really hard on, and you know what? If the information is correct, I'm happy. If the image is better, even if it's someone else's, I'm happy. Because it makes the site that much better. The only time you should get annoyed is if the image is crappier than yours. Or the new image fundamentally shows something different than what you were trying to show. But if someone wants to replace the screenshots on pages I've done 99% of the work on, with stunning BLU-RAY scans, then by all means do it!!! The average viewer of IMFDB doesn't give a damn who made the page, only that the page looks good.

(d) No Manga scans, No Comic Book scans, No flash Games, No Personal VG Mods, No homemade Youtube videos, No Flash generated short 'films' .... this is IMFDB. If it does not appear on IMDB then it will not appear here.

(e) Don't feel that you need to 'express your inner creativity' by completely changing the FORMAT of established pages to some weird new layout. There are now hundreds of pages and many are established pages with the layout that seems to work best for most visitors. Besides, the guys who make radical changes to a page's layout, usually only has the patience to screw up one or two pages and then leaves all of the other hundred pages alone. If you have a suggestion for layout changes, then post it to the forum and see what the majority of the others think.

(f) Learn how to spell. I know the median age of our users is plummetting and the majority are now minors, but this is supposed to be an information page about firearms in films (and expanded into television/anime/VG). The entire site looks like it was made by seven year olds when the simplest sentences are written like gibberish. Other similar Wikis have much better grammar and layout discipline than we do. Perhaps that's why the Mods seem to slam down so hard on new anonymous members who post lame or incomplete pages.

(g)I can't repeat this enough. Know what you're talking about before you post. Don't count on what 'a friend of a friend' told you or what you've heard on a forum 'online'. Most of this info is B.S.