Words of wisdom for new wp members

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It is possible to upload a cat picture from own PC except in avatar?

This.

My advice is don't under estimate the power of wp how much it could change someone's life even if it's just to find something else to do becides staring into space and endlessly trying to understand nts .

I think you have to upload it to one of those photo sharing sites, then link to it from there.

right click mouse on picture, click on properties and copy the URL address.
paste and put brackets around URL.

Wait, that won't work. You have to upload to an internet site first then copy url.
you can upload to photobucket.

click on the view more emoticons
link on the right side when you are posting a message
there are so many and they're awesome

Dear New WP Member;

Sometimes, you may feel as though you are unneeded, unnoticed, and unwanted here. Sometimes, it may feel that you are posting into an abyss. Know that you are cared about and noticed, even if WPers are not always the best at making this known. WPers may not respond to every post they find enlightening, helpful, or witty, but your words do have an impact, and your voice does liven the discussions here.

If you do need that definite response, that absolute display of concern, The Haven is an amazing forum for such. It may take a few days for any one post or topic to get a response, but the people who reside in that forum are particularly caring.

Don't take a lack of response to a PM as an indication of your social skills or how the person in question feels about you; many members can be rather shy when it comes to one-on-one conversations, and many simply would not know how to appropriately respond, so they don't. Remember also that members vary in how active they are; it make take several weeks to get a response. That being said, keep throwing the PM line out there, if that so suits you; some of these members make for amazing friends.

PUA is one of the things that causes drama. Also rampant nice guyism and a common attitude of entitlement to female attention.

I'm sure some of the guys there might see it differently. Hence, drama.

If you're not back within a week I'll send paramedics.

Yep, unless you're having to right a few wrongs or sort out some creeps, don't venture.
Most of them(and they know who they are) are simpletons, who 'll have you on the verge of a breakdown.. they like to keep people guessing at their newly disposed unsavoury heights of sadism.
Embark with the people, not against them. The only way to make that place safe is to ban a few junkies there.

Try not to necrobump, Empathy - i.e. resurrect an old thread. Sometimes it happens if you search for a term and other times it's in the "related posts" section at lower right. We've all done it, but it makes for a fresher, better conversation if you start a new one on the same theme. On this thread, the only post that was newer than 2014 was yours.

I think this thread was worthy of reprise if only because of the brilliant points made by the much missed Kingdom of Rats on page 1, and it is a useful guide for new members.

Totally agree and usually I do not like necrobumping.

Great points there. Better than I could ever post myself when, a) looking for support or b) offering it.

I don't see the point in misplaced threads. It's about the grit and determination to act out, not just simply 'be here' and 'spell it all out.' New members have a right to know what's here, what's not here and more importantly how to act in self-defence.

Proud that this member was a member of the U.K and not just any old common institution.

She who seeks shall find. Happy foraging

Don't take it personally when you start a thread and you don't get immediate replies.

Before starting a symptom question thread (there has been a surfeit of these lately, such as "Anyone else here have a problem with phones/loud noises etc), check back through the last month of threads on the General Forum and if the topic has been covered already, that recently, post on the existing thread instead of creating a new one.

The constant replication of well-worn topics by new members becomes very boring for the established members, unless there is some startling new insight into them (and there almost never is).

Don't have any expectations. Just be amongst your people