You’ll find answers to all your questions about how the forums work in the forum help pages. This is just a quick run through the absolute basics to get you started.
First, you need to know how to reply to a thread, and how to start a thread of your own…
How to reply to a thread
When you reply to a thread, you’re joining in with a conversation that’s already underway. This is a lot easier than it would be in a real-life conversation, as you can read through from the beginning of the thread first, catch up with everything and then chime in.
You write your reply to the thread in this little editor box you find at the bottom of the page:
If the thread’s a long one, it might have more pages, and then you’ll see
these page numbers above the box and can click along to the last page:
But in any case, your reply will always show up at the end of the thread – that’s at the
bottom of the last page. All the messages are simply displayed in the order people wrote them, so everyone can follow the conversation.
It’s not like on Facebook, where some of the replies can be folded away out of sight – and sometimes the whole lot can be out of sequence, which is just confusing.