[READ BEFORE POSTING] Guides Section - Rules & Guidelines
Welcome to the Neopets Guides section!
Guide Seekers
If you are looking for a guide, please use the Search feature.
When you find the guide you need, if you have questions on the guide or require clarification, you are welcome to respond to the guide. Ping the original creator with "@" and their exact CK username (ex. @(you need an account to see links)) in your question, but if they haven't been online in a long time, it may fall to the community to provide help or additional information. Genuine requests for clarification or additional information on guides won't be considered "gravedigging," regardless of the age of the original guide post.
If you have another helpful tip to add to a guide's content, you're welcome to add it in a reply. Keep in mind that responses to guides which are simply things like "thanks this is really helpful," aren't constructive and will typically be deleted as spam. If a guide has been helpful to you, the correct way to express your appreciation is to give the guide creator Thanks or +Rep.
Please limit +Rep given for guides to 2reputation unless you are staff.
Prospective Guide Creators
Before starting your guide, make sure that one does not already exist on the topic you want to cover by checking this forum. Use the Search feature.
If one already exists, please post in the (you need an account to see links) topic and request staff OK a new guide to replace or supplement the existing guide. Include a link to the existing guide, and why you feel it is a) outdated or b) inadequate.
If one does not exist, you are welcome to begin work on your own guide. Please understand that new guides are being held to a higher quality standard than in the past.
All newly posted guides are placed into moderation for staff review, so please be patient; your guide will not be immediately visible.
Guide Standards
All guides must be your original content. It is acceptable if you utilize other guides as reference material when building your guide, but we still expect that your content should be your original work.
Please cite the sources you used in building your guide if you did not build it solely based on your own personal knowledge of the content -- for example, if you used a combination of 2 or 3 petpages, a Sunnyneo guide, a Jellyneo guide, and your own play experience in building a game guide, cite those sources at the bottom of your guide.
Your guide should include things like headings, bullet points, and images -- "walls of text" are painful to read, and inevitably cause people to turn away from a potential source of information.
Before you post the guide, ask yourself a few questions...
...Is it relevant?
...Is it accurate?
...Will the community find it useful?
...Does the guide do its job? (If you were not already knowledgeable about the subject -- because you should not create a guide on a topic you are not at a minimum very comfortable with -- would this guide really teach you?)
...Is this a guide or is it just a list?
Thank you, and happy guide-hunting or guide-writing!