An addition for a slightly different perspective on the same topic:
Is your thread requesting help or feedback on a design?
- You must be able to clearly articulate any specific questions about your design. If you don't know the questions you need to ask, it is better to put pride aside and say so! This keeps random conjectures about what everyone thinks you're asking to a minimum.
- Link to any research, including CD links, near the end of your post.
- Do not bump old posts on the same idea that have pages and pages ... and pages ... of discussion on the same or similar topic. It is very difficult for the rest of us to remember the fine details of those old threads and it takes too much time for us to read everyone's thoughts on the subject. Instead, link to specific posts within the thread that you want to reference. (There's a button on the right side of every post that will give you the link to that exact post in the thread.)
- If there is information that you are deliberately leaving out due to trade secrets and whatnot, please say so. We won't chastise you for it; we understand the varying perspectives on team secrets and IP. Simply put, if you don't say so then there will be an infinite cycle of small bumps and off-topic sub-discussions that spawn from people asking questions that you don't want to give answers to.
Doing so will
- Keep discussions more on-topic
- Spread around what you've found to others who may also find it useful
- Allow new ideas and findings to be discussed in a more relevant thread
- Allow for better searching on the CD forums of relevant data rather than having to sift through pages and pages of data that sometimes do not apply any more.