First, use the search function
It would be a pity if there is already an interesting discussion about your topic, and you don't even notice it. That's why you can use our search function to make sure that your topic does not already exist in the forum.
Choose the right forum
To get the answers you're looking for, it's important that you post your topic in the right subforum. If you're not sure, just click into one of the sub-forums, read the forum description at the top, or look at the threads that already exist. When you find the right section, click on "Suggest a new topic" at the top and post your topic suggestion.
Comprehensible and interesting wording
To make sure that your thread spikes interest in other members, please consider the following points:
- Title: Meaningful, as short as possible and correctly written
- A common thread should be recognizable, ask yourself: what do you want to achieve?
- What question(s) do you have for the community?
- Comprehensible wording - this is not only limited to the correct spelling
- Logical structure - your topic will be easier to read if you divide a long text into paragraphs
Content that does not belong in the forum
Our forum is a public space and the JOY team is responsible for what others can read there. Therefore, there is certain content that is inappropriate for the forum. This includes:
- Support requests, fake discussions, criticism or suggestions for improvement. For this, please contact our support directly.
- Private stories that are not interesting for other members and do not provide a basis for discussion
- Fundraising campaigns, petitions and appeals
- Agitation, polemics, opinion making, conspiracy theories
- Illegal offers or topics that fall under our taboos
- Topics with obvious and formative advertising character
- Contact and file requests, please post a file request for this purpose
- Topics, in which publicly negative criticism of other members is practised or over uninvolved third is pulled down
- Search/offers, we have our flea market for this
- Games like Date or Next, association chains and the like
- Requests in the name of third parties
- Job offers/searches
Topic review and help from the JOY team
After you have written your topic, click on "Save topic suggestion". The new topic will then be checked by the JOY team, and you will be informed within 24 hours at most whether your topic has been approved. To achieve a quick topic release, our moderators will make minor changes to your topic suggestion (spelling, title, steering question, structure, etc.) before publication without consulting you. If your topic needs a more in-depth revision, our moderators will contact you and help you with that.
If you are unsure and would like some help with your topic suggestion, you have the option of contacting our JOY-Angels, who can help you with the formulation of your topic. Contact us in the help thread for personal advice, or read our collection of examples for good topic suggestions for inspiration.