1) Use one of our 'official' languages (English, Polish, Russian),
2) Choose the category for your question carefully,
3) If you think that someone's answer is in any way abusive, you can report it to be deleted, there's a special button for it. If you think that someone's answer is better than others, we encourage you to vote for it by pressing 'VOTE AS BEST' button, so that it goes up in the list of answers.
4) There is a points system (we're still on it, so don't get scared by the weird amount of points you've got just yet ): asking a question earns you 1 point, answering - 5 points, voting on a best answer - 1 point, if someone votes your answer as best, this will earn you 1 point, too. We'll be using these points later in the karma system, that will affect your overall Englishtips presence, so having a lot of them is a good thing :) You can check the points you have in your profile. You can also see all your questions and answers there.
5) Once you have submitted a question or an answer, you cannot edit or delete it, so think carefully about the way you put it.
6) Each question is limited to 110 characters only, so keep'em short and to the point! If you need, you can explain your question in more detail in the 'Add detail' optional window (1000 more characters).
7)You can also bookmark the questions you like to get back to them later.

At the moment we have got over a dozen categories - obviously not all of them are needed there. Thus, each week I'll be deleting one or more categories that have not generated many questions and answers.

1) All cover images on the main page will zoom in to the bigger picture if you click them.

2) You can change your email address, your password, hide your email from others, share your bookmarked Englishtips publications, and even specify your gender - all in your Profile (click "Options" there)

3) You can view the status of the publications you have submitted - in your Profile, too

4) You can subscribe to our RSS feed and receive site updates WITHOUT actually visiting the site! Here's our RSS link. You can also track specific user's publications via RSS, too. Just go to his/her profile and click the RSS icon (for example, http://englishtips.org/engine/rss.php?subaction=allnews&user=ENGLISHTIPS_admin is the RSS link for the publications made by me). Another nice feature is tracking specific category updates via RSS - please see more on this here.

5) If you have a website, you can present our updates to your site's visitors by installing one of our auto-updating widgets. More on this.

6) You can view only unread publications since your last visit by visiting this link.

7) Ever wondered about how many articles are there on Englishtips altogether? Or how many comments? How many thank-you's have the users said? Please visit our Stats page.

8) Did you know that you can sort the Englishtips articles just the way you like it? The following options are available: sort by date, by popularity, by most visits, most comments, or even alphabetically! Please click one of the "Sort by:" links above the first publication in any page. You can also search all publications with a specific keyword (tag) by replacing the last word in http://englishtips.org/index.php?do=tags&tag=tag with a single-word tag. For example, http://englishtips.org/index.php?do=tags&tag=catering.

9) Did you know that we have a daily mini-lesson with audio, quiz and concept questions? Please check this page.

10) Did you know that you can view all publications added on a specific day by clicking that day in the calendar in the right-hand panel?

11) Did you know that we pay $10 to our authors for each interesting article related to English learning? (currently only in Russian at the moment, we'll be extending the contest to English in the nearest future). Please view the contest rules here.

12) Did you know that Englishtips.org is maintained by a team of devoted individuals who put their efforts into the project - non-commercially, not being paid for this? The only profit this site gets is from advertising.

13) Did you know that you can subscribe to or unsubscribe from our weekly mailing list with links to the latest Englishtips.org publications at any time? There is an option in your profile for that, too!

14) Did you know that of you click any other user's nickname anywhere in the comments, it will bring up the following options: link to this user's profile, link to a new message to this user, and link to see all comments made by this user?

15) Did you know that there's a whole bunch of smilies that you can use in the shoutbox? Please find the list below: