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Don't post under more than one username.

~~Post~~ in one forum ~~only~~.

Don't make the same post in more than one forum.

Include as much detail as you can about you and your bike, especially concerning service history.

Include as much detail as you can about you and your bike, especially concerning service/maintenance history.

Posts which are in bad taste, are blatantly argumentative, or have been posted a thousand times before are subject to deletion. Complaints about deletion will, at best, be ignored.

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====Answers====

Answers are generally available within a short period of time, so keep checking on your post. You can elect to have answers forwarded by email by checking the appropriate box in Settings, upper right corner of the Forum Index page. Be aware of time zones. Other parts of the country/world might be sleeping while you are waiting for an answer.

Answers are generally available within a short period of time, so keep checking on your post. You can elect to have answers forwarded by email by checking the appropriate box in Settings, upper right corner of the [http://forums.ninja250.org/index.php Forum Index] page. Be aware of time zones. Other parts of the country/world might be sleeping while you are waiting for an answer.

Wait at least 24 hours. If you don't get an answer in that time, then either no one has the information, you didn't clearly state your question, or you posted on Super Bowl Sunday.

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====Composing in Word====

If you are writing a particularly long message and you want to save and edit it on your hard drive, compose in Notepad or another text editor (not Wordpad). If you compose in MS Word or Open Office Writer, then copy/paste, you'll end up with a lot of question marks that will make your post difficult to read. [http://www.crimsoneditor.com/ Crimson Editor] is a good free text editor.

If you are writing a particularly long message and you want to save and edit it on your hard drive, compose in Notepad or another text editor (not Wordpad). If you compose in MS Word or Open Office Writer, then copy/paste, you'll end up with a lot of question marks that will make your post difficult to read. If you use Word, go to Save As, then save as Plain Text (.txt). [http://www.crimsoneditor.com/ Crimson Editor] is a good free text editor.

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 Don't post under more than one username.
-Post in one forum only.
+Don't make the same post in more than one forum.
-Include as much detail as you can about you and your bike, especially concerning service history.
+Include as much detail as you can about you and your bike, especially concerning service/maintenance history.
 Posts which are in bad taste, are blatantly argumentative, or have been posted a thousand times before are subject to deletion. Complaints about deletion will, at best, be ignored.
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 ====Answers====
-Answers are generally available within a short period of time, so keep checking on your post. You can elect to have answers forwarded by email by checking the appropriate box in Settings, upper right corner of the Forum Index page. Be aware of time zones. Other parts of the country/world might be sleeping while you are waiting for an answer.
+Answers are generally available within a short period of time, so keep checking on your post. You can elect to have answers forwarded by email by checking the appropriate box in Settings, upper right corner of the [http://forums.ninja250.org/index.php Forum Index] page. Be aware of time zones. Other parts of the country/world might be sleeping while you are waiting for an answer.
 Wait at least 24 hours. If you don't get an answer in that time, then either no one has the information, you didn't clearly state your question, or you posted on Super Bowl Sunday.
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 ====Composing in Word====
-If you are writing a particularly long message and you want to save and edit it on your hard drive, compose in Notepad or another text editor (not Wordpad). If you compose in MS Word or Open Office Writer, then copy/paste, you'll end up with a lot of question marks that will make your post difficult to read. [http://www.crimsoneditor.com/ Crimson Editor] is a good free text editor.
+If you are writing a particularly long message and you want to save and edit it on your hard drive, compose in Notepad or another text editor (not Wordpad). If you compose in MS Word or Open Office Writer, then copy/paste, you'll end up with a lot of question marks that will make your post difficult to read. If you use Word, go to Save As, then save as Plain Text (.txt). [http://www.crimsoneditor.com/ Crimson Editor] is a good free text editor.
 ====Keep things work-friendly====