No doubt, everyone unconsciously knows etiquette of many sorts, be it in real life or online. Because insults, intentional or not, are the last things we want thrown around, right? Well, this blog contains a few subtle, lesser-known tips toward maintaining one's politeness quotient (X]). Most of it’s common sense, I hope.

1. Avoid posting comments on your own profile.
More specifically, when responding to someone else. That's because they won't receive a notification that you replied, and 90% of the time, they won't be frequently going back to your profile. So replying on the commentor's profile is much more efficient.

2. Don't type up long word chains.
In places like profiles, signatures, and bulletin boards. And with things such as "LOOOOOOL"--except 13 and a half times longer. It will generally mess with the limited pixel width of the website, and so creates problems with posting and properly viewing comments.

3. Keep blogs to medium length.
Of course, text worth thousands of kilobytes isn't desirable, but usually the problem is with blogs being too short. There's barely any point in reading one-sentence or one-paragraph blogs.

4. Erase double-posts where possible. Yes, double-posts happen, usually not on purpose, but while they're your BB posts or comments in your profile/group, take them out. No one cares to see clone messages, and you'd be saving moderators a bit of work.

5. Avoid excessive "lol"s.
Yes, I know this is a staple of chatrooms, and maybe this is just a peeve of mine. But lol, it's kind of silly when you're "lol"-ing on or at every other post, lol. Right?

6. Spell others’ usernames correctly.
Some may take offense to this, so try to type them accurately. If you happen to misspell, correct yourself and/or apologize to tread on the side of caution.

7. Let the user know when you're switching PMs.
It's kind of irking when you're talking to somebody in a chat and they don't respond.

8. Use the /away command.
When in chatrooms, it's courteous to let people know when you're gone. Like with above, it's not nice to think you're talking to someone when you're not.

So think about putting these in practice if you don’t. Oh and thanks for reading!