"8. Preview before you post. Once you post you cant edit." In addition, if you've written up an opus for a post, make sure you do it in some sort of text editor. There's been a couple of occasions where I wrote myself up a nice post only to hit the preview button and get directed right back to the forum index due to negative forum software karma - bye bye post. If you create your post in a separate application it will still be there when the forum software hoses you, otherwise you get to compose your thoughts all over again - or do like I do, skip doing it over and thus deprive the world of my ingenious insight (that was a joke for the humour impaired).