# How to guide for users
**URL:** https://meta.discourse.org/t/how-to-guide-for-users/73014
**Category:** Support
**Created:** [October 29, 2017, 6:15pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/how-to-guide-for-users/73014 "2017-10-29T18:15:15Z")
**Posts on this page:** 7
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### Author:  [@ideatank](https://meta.discourse.org/u/ideatank)
#### Post date: [October 29, 2017, 6:15pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/how-to-guide-for-users/73014/1 "2017-10-29T18:15:15Z")
Hi everybody
Is there any how-to guide we can pass to our users so to understand the functionality of the discourse forum?
I have hosted it at DO and need to educate people.
Thank you!
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### Author:  [@Noah751](https://meta.discourse.org/u/Noah751)
#### Post date: [October 29, 2017, 6:31pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/how-to-guide-for-users/73014/2 "2017-10-29T18:31:58Z")
I believe there is a moderation guide on how moderating works, I don’t know about a guide for users.
Moderation guide:
> [@Discourse Moderation Guide](https://meta.discourse.org/t/discourse-moderation-guide/63116):
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> So you’re a moderator on a Discourse forum - congratulations! As a forum moderator, it’s your role to help oversee the forum, ensuring that users and content are in line with your TOS, FAQ, and other published rules/guidelines. Discourse comes with numerous tools to help you accomplish this. Let’s take a look at some common scenarios and see how each can be handled with Discourse. Welcoming New Users Part of keeping a community friendly and helping it grow involves being an example to other…
But otherwise you can use the #howto category to learn basic information of discourse and share it with your users.
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### Author:  [@dax](https://meta.discourse.org/u/dax)
#### Post date: [October 29, 2017, 6:44pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/how-to-guide-for-users/73014/3 "2017-10-29T18:44:20Z")
The basic informations are covered by discobot when users create a new account (interactive narratives for new users and advanced users). See [Who is Discobot?](https://blog.discourse.org/2017/08/who-is-discobot/)
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### Author:  [@ideatank](https://meta.discourse.org/u/ideatank)
#### Post date: [October 29, 2017, 6:44pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/how-to-guide-for-users/73014/4 "2017-10-29T18:44:44Z")
That’s helpful, thank you.
I assume I can copy information from here and add it to my forum; that’s allowed. Correct?
I am asking because that is not allowed in some forums.
(btw, just landed here)
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### Author:  [@Noah751](https://meta.discourse.org/u/Noah751)
#### Post date: [October 29, 2017, 6:48pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/how-to-guide-for-users/73014/5 "2017-10-29T18:48:42Z")
You can create links from your forum that land to meta’s #howto category, like oneboxing.
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### Author:  [@schungx](https://meta.discourse.org/u/schungx)
#### Post date: [October 30, 2017, 10:44am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/how-to-guide-for-users/73014/6 "2017-10-30T10:44:23Z")
I suppose the ultimate test of any software is that users don’t need to read a tutorial…
Discourse actually is quite far ahead on this front.
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### Author:  [@JammyDodger](https://meta.discourse.org/u/JammyDodger)
#### Post date: [June 8, 2024, 12:44pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/how-to-guide-for-users/73014/7 "2024-06-08T12:44:00Z")
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