Posted on 10/27/2003 10:41:53 AM PST by 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.
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Announcements Notifications of Activism events, FR business
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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.
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Philosophy - Discussions of philosophy and ideology.
Political Humor/Cartoons - Funny stuff
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Unclassified - Articles awaiting re-classification.
Vanities and General Interest.
Your Opinion/Questions - All non-sourced non-news threads are posted here. This doesnt 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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The Ultimate Sidebar Management Thread
Regarding Terri Schiavo Stories, the BN Sidebar, vanities, and newcomers
Knock it off with the "funny" vanities. We've got enough of the funnies in the news already.
Please do not post photos or links to photos or other personal info on the Kobe Bryant Accuser
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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 Ð 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)
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