skeletonbow: 1) Be polite, friendly, and helpful at all times.
2) To avoid criticizm, judgment, insults and blame (towards anyone or anything).
3) To be grateful to others for what they provide (assistance, free games, etc.) but to not expect anything of anyone or feel entitled to anything.
4) To observe and respect the traditions and customs of the forums in general, and individual threads and their conventions, and try to adapt to what others expect.
5) To not be concerned about the rep score as it is almost meaningless except for some giveaways and it will grow naturally over time by simply posting regularly and maintaining an overly positive demeanour along with the tips I've suggested above.

Leucius: Nothing to drop at this point in time, but don't you hate it when you work an evening shift and you get home, feeling tired, lay down to go to bed, and you're all wound up from work and it takes 3 hours to pass out? I hate it.

IAmSinistar: Maybe there's something in the air right now, so to speak. I had a night terror last night, which I haven't had in a while. Very disconcerting.

Thespian*: But you do love horror games, right? So that must have been be a nice experience for you... :P

IAmSinistar: I do, horror games and movies and books. This was... something other. If you've never had a night terror it's hard to convey the experience. But since I have an anxiety-based disorder, the effect is quite profound. It's hard to shake off even once one is fully awake and alert. And the imagery is unlike conventional horror, it taps into personal places in deeply unsettling ways.

IAmSinistar: Maybe there's something in the air right now, so to speak.

Thespian*: I do know, I've got a recurrent nightmare since childhood and doesn't matter how many times I experience it, it's always disturbing...

deryni: I had a recurring nightmare as a child, haven't had it in many many years thankfully, which was utterly terrifying for no apparent reason at all (it did involve the house being broken into but that, in and of itself, wasn't the scary part). Man did I hate that dream.

tinyE: The other night I had a dream I was eating a hot fudge sundae. When I woke up I had a spoon sticking out of my ass.

deryni: I've almost entirely stopped remembering my dreams at this point.

IAmSinistar: Recurrent nightmares are often incubated by an actual traumatic event (physically, mental, and/or emotional). The mind wraps it in subconscious symbolism to allow it to be re-experienced and processed somewhat distantly. The actual mechanism has much in common with PTSD. Ceasing to have the dream can mean one has worked through the underlying trauma, sometimes without ever being consciously aware you have done so.

IAmSinistar: Recurrent nightmares are often incubated by an actual traumatic event (physically, mental, and/or emotional). The mind wraps it in subconscious symbolism to allow it to be re-experienced and processed somewhat distantly. The actual mechanism has much in common with PTSD. Ceasing to have the dream can mean one has worked through the underlying trauma, sometimes without ever being consciously aware you have done so.