Posted on 09/15/2004 11:12:31 AM PDT by piperpilot
I am fairly new to the site. I think I understand what Pinging is all about but have yet to figure out what a Bump is. Can someone explain? Any other site customs I should know about?
It was a different screen name, the post was gone in less than a minute.
Double posting always reminds me of Walla Walla WA. You know, A town so nice they named it twice.
Not surprised. People around here take a very dim view of trolls who threaten the Big Guy.
Updated FR Excerpt and Link Only or Deny Posting List due to Copyright Complaints
April 5, 2004 | Jim Robinson
Posted on 04/05/2004 3:53:42 PM PDT by Jim Robinson
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1111944/posts
Example of a keyword:
Napalm In The Morning
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/keyword?k=napalminthemorning
The old bump list:
http://www.freerepublic.com/perl/bump-list
It has the converted keywords. The new software converts the "group" links (which are obsolete) into the appropriate keyword search. s'cool. Bumping is just a way to pop a topic back into the busy topics view. BTTT means "Back To The Top" and is the same idea. Pinging is to reply to specific people to call their attention to a topic you've found, if you think it will interest them, or if you maintain a ping list (I maintain Gods, Graves, Glyphs at the present time). AFAIK, there is no list of ping lists. Maybe someone here knows otherwise?
To set up your main page to carry the desired topics:
Ultimate Sidebar Management
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/856605/posts
In each topic there's a link that says "bookmark". If you click on it, you can edit the bookmark title as needed (which is good, because there's not really an edit function for that, only a delete). Example of a links list (results from "Bookmark" links in topics):
http://www.freerepublic.com/~sunkenciv/links
To see your own, just substitute "piperpilot" for "sunkenciv" in that link.
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