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I don’t put the entire title of an article in when I search, just a major word from it. Sometimes news services will put out articles to papers and the titles will be different in each paper, or the poster will change it themselves.
Thank you for your service!
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Bookmark.
Every time I tried. I get a moderator or someone saying I did something wrong. Sometimes with a warning with the post removed.
Thanks for the info. Bump for later read.
On hot breaking news or events, you have to go into another browser window and do the search right before you are going to click Post. If you do it up front, too much time has passed since copying and pasting and formatting and others doing the same will all post dupes.
John should change the “Post” button code to do a Search and throw up a popup window. If you see dupes, you can cancel out.
I would like to know why so many posts have duplicated paragraphs, sometimes in the middle of the body!
Also, you should remind people that if they copy the whole content at once, they should take the time to delete spurious ads in the middle of the text.
Clearly some people do not even look at the preview before posting!
Thanks for posting. I’ve posted many threads, but I never knew about the Copyright List until now.
I would include an extra step(s) in the “Search” portion.
Pre-test the Search module:
Take an existing thread title in the Forum.
Enter it in the search-bar.
Choose “Titles” and click on SEARCH.
If the thread is returned, then the Search module is working \at that time\.
Enter the title of your thread and search.
If it doesn’t, all bets are off and post away!
You forgot to mention if they are going to post their own blog, make sure they excerpt the posting and ping humblegunner as the first comment. He loves to chat on excerpted blog threads.
There needs to be a few words said about html tags like paragraph tags shown in the example. As soon as you use 1 html tag, the entire post goes into html-tag mode or whatever it is called.
Formatting is not preserved even when there are NO html tags.
Bookmarked
Occasionally you’ll attempt to post from a website that is prohibited from linking to. Be interesting to see which ones are black listed.
1), 2), and 3) is inefficient.
Paste THE MOST UNCOMMON word in the title, only. Then look at the list when you search, and see if any of the 20-30 titles look similar.
Example: “Lindsey Graham tells CNN of his gaseous emissions from his rear.”
Look for the word “gaseous”, only. You will see:
“Lazamataz is noted for being gaseous.”
“The atmosphere of methane on the gaseous giant, Uranus, puzzles scientists.”
“In an interview with CNN, Graham admits to being gaseous.” <<<<<<-—— THIS ONE IS SUSPECT
And, see, you wouldn’t use “emissions” in my example, or else you’d get 50 articles about Biden’s unreasonable auto emissions standards.
Use THE MOST UNLIKELY word in the title.
This step is often overlooked :)
I think I successfully posted Twice...and then I went insane.
“NOT THIS AGAIN!” Please don’t take it personally. Some people just prefer to post complaints instead of threads.
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LOLOL Is thaT RIGHT? I’ve posted over 20K threads. Never had a complaint. (ducks)
One thing folks need here is a thick skin and a thicker skull.
Just remember , only you can prevent zotageddon. Please don’t feed the radicals who visit this site and act like they own it.
There are two other important threads that FReepers need to read. One of them posted by a most wise and intelligent man. (blushing)
An exhortation to those who post thread (normally post as much of the meat of the article as allowed, describe videos, etc.)
FR ^ | Sat, 02/06/21 | daniel1212
Posted on 2/6/2021 11:09:38 AM by daniel1212
You do know that you can post more than 10 words in a thread, don't you?
05/11/2011 | Responsibility2nd
Posted on 5/11/2011 11:44:13 AM by Responsibility2nd