VGG User Guide: VGG Forums 
The forums are where you and other users can discuss games, the site, ask and answer questions, and otherwise be an active part of the community.
Clicking on the Forums menu will take you to the master forums page for VGG. This page shows the site subforums, from which you can browse, read and reply to existing threads, or post your own.
The "Post Thread" link at the top allows you to start your own new thread on the topic of your choosing. When starting a thread, please try and place it in the appropriate place (For example, questions on the site should go under "How To VGG" while discussions on Fallout 3 should go under the game forums on the Fallout 3 page.) The subscribe link will subscribe you to notifications for all threads made under a subforum.
A thread always starts with the initial post. The links at the bottom right of the thread allow you to post a reply to the thread. Quote includes the selected message in your response, while reply gives you a clean slate. The "quick" versions of each open the editor inline with the thread, while the normal versions open a new editor page.
The editor allows you to format your post, include links to items on the site or images, along with provides easy access to emoticons and the scrabblify function (which turns selected letters into scrabble tiles). The preview button will allow you to see how your post will look before you submit it. The post button submits it.
In the case that you make a mistake on a post, your own posts will have an edit button, which will allow you to make changes. When you edit a post, a message noting when you last edited it will be added to your post.
Game Forums
While the main forums are intended for general discussion, each game has its own forum for discussing the game. This allows discussions about the game to be easily found, without cluttering up the other discussion forums. Game forums work just like the other forums, and are each divided into General, News, Reviews, and Strategy sections.
Guilds
Guilds are small forums which are created by users to cover a selection of allowed topics. Guilds can be accessed from the Misc. menu.
It costs 10 GeekGold to create a guild. The Add Guild page details the guidelines for creating a guild. When submitted, the guild will be sent to the site admins for approval.
Anyone can join a guild. The Guilds home page lists the current guild categories, which will either expand to a list of guilds, or another set of subcategories. Clicking on a Guild will take you to the Guild page, which looks like other item pages, providing details on the guild, a description, forums, an image gallery, and a guild calendar. You need to join the guild, using the link in the upper right, in order to post or add content to it. You can always leave a guild by clicking on the same link (it will change from "Join this guild" to "Leave this guild").
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