The unwritten rules of this forum: what did you figure out that nobody told you?

[Falcon]

Every online community has its culture and this one has developed over years. There are things that are obvious once you know them and invisible until you do. I have been here long enough to have figured most of them out but I occasionally still stumble on something that makes me think I should have known earlier.

This is partly a thread for new members to learn the landscape and partly an excuse for longer members to articulate things that have been intuitive for years. What are the norms here? What makes a good post? What gets you quietly ignored versus what generates good discussion?

Not a rules enforcement exercise, just a community self-reflection thread.

[Outlaw92]

The thing that took me longest to learn: short posts get more replies than long ones. Not because people do not have patience but because a focused question or observation creates more room for others to enter the conversation.