It has become evident that we have members that don't seem to understand forum etiquette and treat this forum as if they were posting on Facebook. It has also occurred to me that most members are too young to remember the days of newsgroups before the advent of the worldwide web and so are not familiar with how high the bar can be set in terms of behaviors within such discussion groups. I also couldn't find any guidelines on this site others than the terms and conditions which broadly state the inappropriate uses of this site. So, I thought a general discussion would be useful and perhaps we could come to a mutual understanding of proper etiquette.
The first item that I would suggest is to read the other posts to see what has been said about your topic before posting, To give you an idea, in the days of newsgroup, it was generally viewed appropriate to spend a year lurking in the discussions, getting familiar with the many discussions before posting anything. I'm not suggesting that here, but do take some time reading the various discussions before assuming that you are going to enlighten on the membership with your particular point of view.
When you do decide to post, recognize that there are two categories of discussion: General and Cuddle Requests. If you want to cry out to everyone how you haven't been successful in your corner of the world finding anyone to fulfill your need for a cuddle and how somebody cute and attractive can contact you today, please post it in the Cuddle Request forum with all the others.
Spend a little time learning how the search function works and how to contact individual members who have a profile that suggests that they would be interested. Show a little respect in your message and you might be surprised. Perhaps read other things that this members has posted and learn a little about them, there are some members on here of very high caliber and you are lucky to be able to chat with them.
Do not keep bumping your post so that everyone will read it again, especially if no one found it interesting enough for a response the first time. Using bold type is the equivalent of yelling in a forum, generally a good way to drive away potential friends.
This is getting lengthy and I will stop my rampage so that others can add the comments (or not).