Advice for New Users

Unity Answers is a site where Unity users can seek, and receive help.  It's expected that new users will ask more questions than they answer.  That puts a responsibility on new users to ask sensilbe questions that the more experienced users will be happy to answer.

What's a sensible question?

It's impossible to say what a sensible question is.  Examples of non-sensible questions:

a) Asking someone to write some script for you

b) Asking a question before you've done any homework and read the Unity documentation or performed a Google search.  (You do know what Google is, right?)

c) Posting questions that contain script code that is not formated correct.  Please see the video here that teaches you about code formating.

d) Asklng a question that has been asked before.

e) Asking a question that is not clear or contains enough information to allow someone to help you.

Site Etiquette

There are some rules you will want to follow:

a) If you have fewer than 15 karma points you will need your questions and answers approved before they appear on the site.  Don't post the same question multiples times assuming something has gone wrong.  Your first question will appear once a moderator has approved it.

b) The site works around Karma points.  If someone helps you and provided a good answer up-vote that answer.  Similarly, if you get an unhelpful answer, feel free to down-vote it.  Your questions will be up- or down-voted in the same way.

c) The site uses comments where people can discuss a question or answer.  Do not post comments as answers.

d) Did I say that you'll want to format your code correctly?

e) Don't bump posts.  If no-one has answered it's because your question was too vague/confusing. Perhaps close your question and ask one that does make sense.

f) If your question is down-voted or closed by a moderator, don't get mad.  Just see it as a way to help you interact more carefully on the site.  Just remember that everyone on the site started out as a beginner.  Some-one in the community will spend their valuable time helping you out if you make it easy for them.

g) The community may answer your question with a link to "Let me google that for you".  That's the way around here we let people know how awesome Google is.  It's not meant to be rude.