Forum Guidelines - Userscripts.org

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The maintainer of userscripts, Jesse Andrews, has not approved this guide. It was written as a suggestive thingy by me, Avindra V.G.. We at userscripts are a very welcoming community, and we certainly love helping people. In order to help me help you help us all, here are a few pointers for posting correctly:

Did you google it first? Did you search the forums? If you did, link to the result that confused you.
Always be courteous; it's one of the reasons our forums are ~~great~~ the best on the Internet.
Post with as much proper English as you are capable of.
Read your post over and see if it makes sense (in scripting, being vague is very easy).
Don't ask for help with scripts on this site. One person made that script-- the author. We have no idea how he (or she) coded it. Rather, use the discussions page of that particular script, or send a private message the author from their profile page.
If you're having trouble posting code, you can use, well, userscripts! A good one is Userscripts Comments Fix.
Post links! Don't be embarassed-- we don't know you, and no one will make fun of you. Plus, there will always be someone crazier than you are.
Use pastebin.com or pastebin.ca to post code-- it will most likely appear malformed otherwise.
BBCode does not work! HTML does!
Perhaps most importantly, don't assume how to fix the problem! People often ask "where can i find a auto-clicker" or "how do i replace the text where it says 'blah'", or concoct absurd solutions for their problem-- leave the thinking to us! You'll get a much better solution than what you would've asked for, guaranteed.
- For example, most people think JavaScript is for maintaining a pile of text that makes up an HTML page. There is a actually a DOM though-- Document Object Model. So don't think it's a pile of text ;)
Don't bump... many of us read every post. Unfortunately, most of us aren't big on making game scripts. If you want us to help with those, like Travian and whatnot-- either post the source code of the page on pastebin, or provide login credentials and the page you're trying to grease.

The key to getting game scripts written is doing as much work as you can on it (even if not scripting, scoping out how it can be done), and asking scripters who are interested in or play the game. Game scripts are just far too time consuming to be handled the regular way. In fact, you should consider paying for game scripts because they are that time consuming.