The important stuff:

New to the site? Start here.

Re: EVERYTHING
Tygerfire is awesome and wrote this up for us. To make the most out of AES, I highly recommend giving this topic a view.

Re: New Feds
Get your fed sorted out here on the AES Shortlist. On a related note: Re: Reason for the AES Shortlist.

Re: Skype and Kayfabe in Streams
People questioned it, Sir Dan answered. Why we don't do Skype calls and something about kayfabing it up.

Also worth reading:

Characters people play
A thread featuring lists of the characters people on the site play. Never get confused as to who plays who again!

WWE 13 CAWS thread
A thread featuring all of the CAWs up for download on both PS3 and Xbox 360, along with the tags and themes!