Complete List Of Forum Tags & Categories

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Definitions

A category is mandatory for topic creation. You have to choose one in order to even create a topic.
A tag is optional. Tags are used to aid in searching for a specific type of thing.

Information

This guide shows you how to correctly use categories and what tags are available for use, and how to correctly use them.

Topic Categories

These are the respective categories of the forum that you put topics in.

Category Description
Help The Help category is for getting help on your Gimkit Creative maps and getting ideas from the community for your Gimkit Creative map. Use this category for questions if it does not fit in any other category (about Gimkit Creative.)
Devices The Devices category is for all things about devices. People use this category to provide information about devices and in-depth help questions related to a specific component. (Devices Is Not A Trash Can) This is also used frequently for in-depth research.
Bugs The Bugs category is for bug reports relating to Gimkit Creative; like if something behaves abnormally or if Gimkit crashes.
Community Made Guides The Community-made Guides category is for writing tutorials about how to make specific things in Gimkit Creative.
Updates The Updates category is for updates made to Gimkit Creative respectively.
Gimkit Awards The Gimkit Awards category is for topics related to the Gimkit Awards event. Only certain people (ex: Unstable) have access to make it.
Art The Art category is for all topics and guides about art in Gimkit Creative, including requests, in-game prop art, and thumbnails.
Uncategorized Unused category that cannot be used in topics.

Guide Category Tags

These tags are added to guides to indicate what type of tag the guide is. Tags in this chapter must be in Community Made Guides

Tag Meaning
psa Topics swaying people to do something over another action. Do not create forum psa topics unless instructed by a moderator. [1]]
gimkit-beginners Easy topics for Gimkit beginners to read.
forum-beginners Topics that new forum users should read. (Also Found Elsewhere)
forum-tips Guides about teaching others how to use the forum. (Also Found Elsewhere)
tug The Ultimate Guide, reserved for large, comprehensive guides that cover large amounts of a topic.
concept Topics discussing abstract concepts like AUO.
nature-of Guides going deep into a specific device’s structure, nature and it’s uses, mostly exposing less-known devices to light.
idea-catalog Topics that are a collection of ideas, usually for maps.

Help/Bug Post Category Tags

Indicator tags used to group together help topics into different statuses. Must be in Help or Bugs.

Tag Meaning
ideas For help posts requesting ideas or inspiration.
not-a-bug For Help topics that are falsely labeled as Bugs to prevent confusion and so Team Gimkit can find actual bugs more easily.

Forum Tags

Tags that directly relate to the forums

Tag Meaning
forum-beginners Topics that new forum users should read. (Also found elsewhere)
forum-tips Guides about teaching others how to use the forum. (Also found elsewhere)

Topic Tags

Tags discussing a specific topic, game, or Gamemode. Examples of topics: Pizza Tower, Baldi’s Basics, Minecraft, Gimkit’s Farmchain, Gimkit’s DLD. Usually goes in Community Made Guides

Tag Meaning
game-recreation Topics related to the recreation of an external game, physical, mental, emotional, or digital
#gimkit-formatting Topics related to formatting (usually text) within GimKit [2].
code A topic associated with blockcode mechanics
among-us Topics about making Among Us in Gimkit.
battle-royale Topics relating to battle-royale styled games.
capture-the-flag Topics about making Capture the Flag.
farmchain Topics about making Farmchain.
tag-domination Topics about making Tag.
fishtopia Topics about making Fishtopia.
pokemon Topics related making Pokémon in Gimkit.
minecraft Minecraft mechanics
snowy-survival Snowy-Survival mechanics
halloween Halloween topics
fnaf Five Nights at Freddy’s mechanics.
rpg Topics related making role playing games in Gimkit.
tycoon Topics about making tycoon games.
escape-room Topics about making escape rooms in Gimkit.
trap Topics about making GKC traps and pranks to trick your friends.
christmas Topics related to Christmas art/builds.
voting Topics related to voting.
survival Topics related to Survival Games
racing For racing topics.
bedwars For bedwars topics.
military Usually for an Art guide about military-related designs and creations.
baldis-basics Guides pertaining to Baldi’s Basics or tutorials to the game.
timer Guides about working countdown timers.
board-game Guides associated with recreations of board games.
top-down Topics about systems or ideas in relation to the top-down map style.
platformer Topics about systems or ideas in relation to the platforming map style.

Restricted

Tags that can only be seen by certain people. Message @moderators if you wish to make a restricted tag.

Tag Meaning Permissions
official This is to be used only by the @moderators and the @trust_level_4 users when they make an official post, like an update to the forum or GKC. @trust_level_4 can make, can be seen by anyone
duplicate Used by regulars to mark topics as a duplicate that TL3+ can see. @trust_level_3 can see and make
automatically-tagged Mod-only tag used to determine when a topic has been automatically tagged. @moderators

Other

Tags that do not fit in the other categories.

Tag Meaning Recommended Category
research Topics relating to gathering information or working together to research different aspects of GimKit that might not have been discovered yet. Devices
clay-institute The hardest known difficulty and hard-to-resolve questions. If solved, they could open up new possibilities for building. Devices
technical Topics related to Technical Gimkit that are about complicated concepts. Redundant due to clay-institute and concept. Devices

  1. The prospect of PSAs (Public Service Announcements) was created by GimAI, an AI bot from the early Discourse Forum history. ↩︎

  2. or in some cases, the forums ↩︎

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Thanks for improving the forum.

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Thanks for the infromation! This will be very useful for new users.

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I’ve seen a few new users creating the tutorial tag… do we keep or delete it?

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I only included tags with at least one topic in them

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Also, difficulty warning is redundant since we already have difficulty rating systems with teh emojis.

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I put that note into the guide

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@twofoursixeight how do you make a onebox? I can’t get it to work

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line by itself

line by itself
https://google.com
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We’ve agreed not to use difficulty warning, actually. And maybe you can add that the off topic tag isn’t there for people to use for their posts, its for marking posts for being off topic :]

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I added the disclaimer

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Wow, this is good! I made this a beginner-must-read.

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Another thought- discouraging new users from using tags, since oftentimes they just make new ones or miuse existing ones.

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Only TL3 users can create tags.

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The tutorial tag keeps popping up on new user posts no matter how many times I delete it…

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Those tags do exist, but a TL3 user orignally made the tag, but it never got used, so the TL0-2 users end up trying to use the tag

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Speaking of which, are mods able to remove tags from the autofill thing?

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there is also length-warning

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I wonder how do we delete these?

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You have time to edit, quick!

Add a new-user-must-read in the table.

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