• Guidelines v 1.18, September 28th 2011

Many try to get us to write their posts for them, but bear in mind: This isn’t a secretary service. If you want to see more content on this site, take the first step yourself.  Questions can be directed to #vanillatf2 on quakenet (irc).

Posts and comments

We’re overall quite liberal with what gets commented and how. But we ask for some form of common decency, such as avoiding personal attacks in focusing on content instead of the person who wrote it. The same rules applies to all content on the site. We, the admins reserve the rights to adminiser the content as we see fit. If this seems arbitrary and open for interpretation, you’re right. This isn’t a democracy, but if you feel you’ve been treated unfairly, you can always get in touch.

All added content should be of interest to the competitive TF2 community. European content should cover (roughly) division 1 and upwards. Content outside of that, should be discussed with an admin first. Global content should cover “top10″ pr scene. With that in mind, you’re free to experiment with whatever content you want. Interviews, articles, food for thoughts. If it’s interesting, it goes up!

Posting an article – How to:

- Register / contribute: For authenticity, you’re required to register using your steam account the first time you enter. You can start contributing by clicking the appropriate button matching your content from the top quick access bar.
- Edit: The default editor window is in HTML. But you can click the “Visual” tab to create your posts in an easy word-like manner. No knowledge of HTML is needed. Note: If you only see 1 row of tools, click the button with multiple tiny squares.
- Add a video: Press the video button
- Adding a picture: There’s a button on top of the editor tool bar. Pictures above 627px width will automatically be resized.
- Add a flag: Dropdown menu in the visual editor. If your flag isn’t there, this list will help you for code
- Adding a match overview: Use the dropdown menu right in the tool bar over your editor, next to
- For headlines within a post, use Heading 3.

Additional, for self publishing authors

- Unless it’s urgent, we still prefer posts to be submitted for review, so that we can coordinate the timing of posts.
- Start your post with [ author=xx yournamehere ], for xx you fill in the two letter code of the country you’re from.
- Use [nobot] to avoid the IRC bot spamming your upcoming post. This is useful for posts that aren’t that important.
- Respect the site rules and guidelines for layout. Read the other guidelines, and don’t stray away from those without asking before publishing.
- Use the “<!–more–>” tag to split up long posts with “continue reading”. There’s also a button for it.
- Don’t overdo tags. Tagging by team is sufficient, tagging by player name is too much.
- Use flags only once per mention of a Team/Player/misc. Flags look the best in lists.
- Generally if you want extra emphasis, players get italics, teams get bold. As a rule of thumb, less is more.