It's time for a posting refresher course (Welcome Newbies)

Admin Moderator | October 27, 2003 | Admin Moderator

[Admin Moderator]

Hi all,

It's time again for another posting refresher course. Thanks for your cooperation.

Only one these topics will show up in the sidebars, posting to multiple topics will still only show one topic.

Activism/Chapters - Activism, protests, news and business of Free Republic Chapters. Freep this poll should be placed in vanity. General news stories about activism should be place in news. After action reports from Freeps are allowed here.

Announcements – Notifications of Activism events, FR business

Breaking News - Not every story is breaking news. Breaking news should be news that affects most of us. There are some exceptions. If there is a hot current event happening, check breaking news. Most likely, it's there already, please check first, then use our search function. (explained below)

Editorial - Editorials are opinions. Some vanities, if well written and thought out can be considered editorial material.

Extended News - Extended news is for stories which have been posted previously and have updated or newer information.

Free Republic - This categories is reserved for Free Republic business.

Front Page News - Front page is for stories which are not breaking news, but would be found on the front page of a newspaper.

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These are just some of the topics that you may use two or more. Do not go out of your way to put in more topics just to try to get more views for your thread. Doing so makes the topics less usable for everyone. Also, do not list every state on your thread. It is unnecessary. Please limit the state topics to those states that the story pertains to.

Business/Economy - Business, industry, financial, markets, trade, banking, budget, debt, taxes and economy news.

Constitution/Conservatism - Discussion of conservatism and conservative principles and issues.

Crime/Corruption – News and discussion of crime, corruption government abuse, power grabs, and scandal.

Culture/Society - Discussion of health, education, welfare, drugs, abortion, environment, housing, unions, employment, social security, religion, arts, humanity, sports, and other cultural and societal issues.

Foreign Affairs - News and discussion of international politics, foreign affairs, diplomacy, national security, war, military, defense and armed forces issues.

Government - News and discussion of all branches of government, departments, agencies, law, policy, legislation, processes and judiciary.

Miscellaneous - Anything which doesn't fit into another category.

News/Current Events - News and discussion of current events.

Philosophy - Discussions of philosophy and ideology.

Political Humor/Cartoons - Funny stuff

Politics/Elections - Discussions of politics and elections.

Unclassified - Articles awaiting re-classification.

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Vanities and General Interest.

Your Opinion/Questions - All non-sourced non-news threads are posted here. This doesn’t mean your one thought is a thread by itself. Lately, we have been seeing articles posted that should be comments made on the main article. Your comment/vanity article will be pulled or moved to General Interest. Vanities should be limited to the mission of Free Republic.

General interest – Is for discussions of news and interest topics unrelated to the news forum. We will move articles unrelated to the news forum here.

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To avoid duplicate posts, please search before posting.

SEARCH

The best method to search is to pick a key word or two from the title. If the article you are posting is, “Agency to probe alleged spousal abuse of Terri Schiavo", start with 'Schiavo' for the key word. If it is a hot topic, you might want to use two or more keywords, in this case, try ‘Schiavo’ and ‘Terri’. For an effective search, select 'match all words' and select 'order by post time'.

[Badray]

Here is a link to the FReeper Photo Album in case you haven't already found it. There are way too many RIPs by the names.

[Admin Moderator]

To remove as many democrats from power, at every level of government and to get this country back on track as our Founding Fathers intended.

[Works_For_Scale]

During my lurk period, I recall seeing that posting full articles from The Onion is also verboten because their lawyers got all whiney. Still true, or have they come to their senses?

[Admin Moderator]

Still true.

Copyright infringement complaint from The Onion

[Works_For_Scale]

Still true.

Then I'll simply have to utilize network news broadcasts, Democrat party press releases, and the collected wit and witticism of Barbra Streisand for source material when I lampoon absurdity by using absurdity.

[Cosmo]

I do hope that newbies will see to it that they are apprised of the respective meanings of "hugh" and "series" --at least so far as this forum is concerned.

thanks

Feel the gin

[stand watie]

!!!!!!

[Admin Moderator]

Yes, it would be good to link the source, if possible. It gives the author appropriate credit.

[Ernest_at_the_Beach]

ROFL!!

[Admin Moderator]

I probably needed it earlier. I completely missed your post #17. Sorry about that chief.

[Admin Moderator]

John does all the software changes. I don't know if title alterations are in his plans. You might want to run it by him.

[Oldeconomybuyer]

bump

[stands2reason]

Welcome to FR, WFS!!!

[Works_For_Scale]

Thank you!

[anotherview]

First, a big thank you for the post.

It really bothers me when, say, an article on the Middle East ends up under "Mexico". Articles really need to be only in topics they are actually related to.

Speaking of which, a couple of more country topics added to the list would be a good idea. My favorite choices: Iraq, France, Afghanistan, India, Pakistan, and a generic one for Africa.

[Jen]

...no post but statement "removed by admin. moderator".. the voyerism in me is VERY CURIOUS..

You're a woman, right? Comes naturally. ;-)

I want to know too!

[Jen]

ADMINLECTURESERIES

Ah ha! That's cool. So that's what the keywords are for.

[Admin Moderator]

I've flagged John to your post. It would be nice to see these countries.

[Admin Moderator]

I've posted it on our home page for future reference.

[Jen]

Not a 'chief' - just one of the 'indians'. ;-) (Note to ACLU: it's just a figure of speech you nitwits.)

(I'm ALIVE!!! WooooHoooo, I didn't get zotted for messing with the AM.)