[GUIDE] Posting guidelines, formatting and abbreviation reference.

Because there are no real moderators to make official post about this, I decided to write up something myself. I want to emphasize that any guidelines bellow come from my opinions about posting. I'm not forcing this on anyone, I just thing these guidelines and the general knowledge bellow would make this community better. My opinions are then based on experience from other sites and observations regarding correlation between votes and post format.

I will try to add any suggestions you make in comments. I don't think I'm right about everything, so let's discuss anything you disagree with.

#Choosing a title I've noticed this to be a huge problem for most users. Post title should summarize post contents. There are exceptions where the whole post is one sentence - begins in title and ends in the post - but I downvote these posts unless they are really funny. Note that good title will make your post indexed by Google for better keywords. So if you are posting something will be valuable over longer period of time, it's worth figuring out good title to make it easily memorable and searchable. Also note that unhelpful title will not attract more readers as post contents can be seen by hovering the post title. This makes it even easier for me to downvote shit titles.

#Getting upvotes is only not about posting popular opinion

I know the popular opinions get more upvotes than non-popular. Yet I've seen users putting through non-popular ideas and writing it in nice and reasonable way such that got upvotes anyway. Also even if you're posting something everybody would agree with, try to put it in a mature and civilized way. Board moderators are very disrespectful to the community mostly because posts look like they were written by users bellow minimal allowed player age.

#Really use search before posting

Don't let your wish for attention control you - if you post about topic that has been here many times you're diverging the audience of that topic. If you instead comment and vote on the old threads, they'll become more important. I don't know how others, but I use the Recent sorting order, so that I see the newest replies first, regardless of vote or comment count.

#Abbreviations

There are many abbreviations used here on forums. Here are some of them (please comment suggestions). I'm trying to only

• AD - *Attack Damage * - The stat that directly affects melee auto-attack damage. Many melee/fighter/tank champions will want to get AD gear to increase their damage.

• AP - *Ability Power * - The stat that directly affects ability damage. Many mage/ranged champions will want to get AP gear to increase their damage.

• ArPen - *Armor Penetration * - makes your AD attacks ignore some amount of the enemy's armor when they hit.

• AS - *Attack Speed * - The speed in which you attack with normal attacks (not spells). AD champions benefit from this.

• Blue - Blue buff on Summoner's Rift, from the Ancient Golem. Provides scaling CDR and bonus mana/energy regen.

• Bot - generally refers to the bottom lane in Summoner's Rift and Twisted Treeline, or the champions who are laning there. E.g., "Bot mia" = "the enemy champions in Bot lane are missing, beware." On Dominion, this refers to the lower-left or lower-right capture points, as well as the bottom lane in general.

• Carry - heroes, usually AD heroes, capable of dealing massive damage and taking down entire groups, but usually die themselves easily too (they "carry" the entire team for the damage)

• CC - Crowd Control, which refers to abilities that restrict a Champions ability to act or move, such as slows and stuns.

• CDR - *Cooldown Reduction * - The more %, the quicker the cooldown on spells is over (a maximum of 40%). Usually good for casters or heroes without mana.

• CS - Creep Score - The count of the number of minions you've killed. This count is also increased when you benefit from an ally's Relic Shield, Targon's Brace, or Face of the Mountain. Higher number means you've been better at last hitting, and have more gold to spend.

• Dive - Tower diving, the fact of attacking an enemy under his tower, usually to deal a killing blow on a low-health champion. Doing so makes the tower attack the diver, making it a risky move.

• DoT - *Damage over Time * - An effect whereby a player or monster loses health over time. DoTs may be applied by abilities, such as Tristana's Explosive Shot, by buffs, such as Crest of the Elder Lizard (red buff), or items, such as Blackfire Torch.

• Drag - Dragon/Drake - the boss monster near bottom lane on Summoner's Rift. See also: pull.

• Gank - To gang up on an enemy champion by surprise and kill him/her.

• **Gp10 ** - Gold per 10 seconds. How much gold you generate per 10 seconds, by items, runes or masteries. Useful for support champions.

• **Hard Leash (red/blue) ** - same as a normal Leash (see below), but leaving the monster with very little health (around ~10%) and the jungler finishes the monster without using Smite (usually to save it for the other buff since he won't be receiving help this time). This is less common in Season 4, due to the lower cooldown on Smite.

• KS - *Kill Steal * - When someone finishes an enemy, but other teammate wanted to perform.

• **Leash (red/blue) ** - helping the jungler with a neutral monster until the monster is at ~30-40% of health at the beginning of a game, so that the jungler can use Smite to finish it (usually people leave the area so that the jungler gets all the experience).

• mia - *Missing In Action * - Means that the enemy in your lane (or the specific enemy you mention) is no longer visible in your lane, and may be on his way to "gank" a teammate. Everyone should be careful and watch out for the missing champion. Also used: "miss" or "ss"

• Mid - refers to mid - lane in Summoner's Rift, or the middle level of capture nodes in Dominion.

• **Mp5 (Aka MP/5) ** - Mana per 5 Seconds - a stat referring to how much mana your champion recovers every 5 seconds.

• MPen - *Magic Penetration * - makes your magical attacks ignore some amount of the enemy's magic resistance when they hit.

• Proc - Refers to an item's or an abilities' activation due to some other action, usually but not always a basic attack. Examples include Phage's move speed buff (basic attack), Vel'Koz' passive (spell damage), Vi's Denting Blows (both basic attacks and spell damage), Caitlyn's Headshot, etc.

• **Pull (red/blue/dragon) ** - the fact of hitting a neutral monster, usually at range, so that it will follow you for a few seconds, allowing another champion to attack it without getting damage. You will find this typically at the beginning of the game, with the carry pulling the golem/lizard for the jungler. As of Season 3, this no longer works on red or blue.

• OOM - Out of mana; a champion who is out of mana usually has to retreat and will be less helpful in a fight.

• Red - Red buff on Summoner's Rift, from the Lizard Elder. The buff adds a DoT and slow on-hit effect to auto-attacks.

• Top - Top lane in Summoner's Rift/Twisted Treeline, or the upper-left/upper-right capture points in Dominion.

• Tri - The bush shaped like a three-pointed star. Found in the bottom lane on Blue (Green) side, or the top lane on Red (Purple) side.

The current version of this list is credited to Schism at gaming.stackexchange.com. You can also refer to League of Legends Wiki for a complete list.

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#Formating

The syntax used here is called Markdown. Sadly, board developers have cut away many of markdown's great features, leaving you with but a few options. One of things we're going to miss a lot are #anchors - markdown normally supports syntax for creating and linking to anchors. Anchors allow for table of contents like on wikipedia. Unfortunately Board developers probably do not know anything about security since they claim that they have disabled this functionality for security reasons. Just imagine how useful would that be for champion concepts and guides in general.

Heading

#Heading

Begin line with hashtag (#) to make a heading.

Heading level 2

##Heading level 2

Second level heading. There's also 3rd level with three hashtags, but some retard has disabled it in Boards Markdown distribution.

Horizontal line

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Use three commas to display horizontal line.

Images (disabled by forum developers because they think they can do better)

!DESCRIPTION

Markdown has it's own, very reliable syntax for adding images. Instead, insert image url directly in the text. Usually, it renders properly. Of course, images with spaces in the URL will not work, replace spaces with %20. And the Embedly image implementation also does not work in preview.

Nested lists

[SPACE]\1. item level 1 [SPACE][SPACE]\1. item level 2 [SPACE]\2. Item level 1

1. item level 1
2. item level 2
3. Item level 1

There can be at least 3 levels of nesting, just add more spaces. My test:

• 1
  • 2
    • 3
      • 4
        • 5
          • 6

Disable formatting characters

\*no bold here\*

Put backslash before any functional character (*, _, [, ], --- and so on) to have it rendered normally.

Text style

1. *italic*
2. **bold**
3. ***both***
4. ~~strikethrough~~

1. italic
2. bold
3. both
4. strikethrough

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Getting post source code

Two ways:

1. Quote the post. Anything quoted will remain hidden for you
2. Copy some unique word (or words) from post. Then press CTRL+U for page source code. Then find the post source by CTRL+F. Thank retarded boards developers for parsing Markdown by javascript (that's why page lags after loading btw).