It's time for a posting refresher course - Volume 2 (Welcome Newbies)

It's time for a posting refresher course (Welcome Newbies) ^ | January 8, 2004 | Admin Moderator

[Admin Moderator]

Hi all,

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

FYI: The New York Times is not part of the lawsuit.

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 (Chat)

– 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, "Our 1st Quarter Freepathon is Underway! - Thread 4", start with 'Quarter' for the key word. If it is a hot topic, you might want to use two or more keywords, in this case, try 'Quarter' and 'Freepathon'. For an effective search, select 'match all words' and select 'order by post time'.

[Neets]

Indeed!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

[Admin Moderator]

I'll have to link all of FR next time. I'll go for the gold!

[Admin Moderator]

Could be worse.

[Rightly Biased]

Go here for all you need to know on photos and links etc.

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1011945/posts

[Admin Moderator]

We get paid in kitty chow and catnip. ;)

[Admin Moderator]

<img src="Place the url of the picture here">

Looks like this:

<img src="http://www.sportshooter.com/events/images/sbt_gnv_czs.jpg">

Ends up like this:

You can practice here:

HTML Sandbox

[stands2reason]

Thanks for that.

I just want to clear up any confusion out there, the naked Obi-Wan I was referring to was NOT old and crusty Obi-Wan (Alec Guinness), it was young and hot Obi-Wan (Ewan Mcgregor).

I can't find the picture anyway, dammit....

[Admin Moderator]

Yes, four girls, seven guys.

[Admin Moderator]

We'd have to pull a naked picture anyway.

[stands2reason]

I wouldn't have posted it---I know better than that!

I would have linked to its webpage........

[Admin Moderator]

Depending on how graphic, we might still have to remove the link. Jim strives to keep this place somewhat family oriented.

[PianoMan]

I'd like to add a comment for newbies.

If you are like me and not a hardcore Freeper, by which I mean you come here well less than an hour a day, anything that is breaking news WILL already be posted. Any article from a major newspaper WILL already be posted by someone who takes care of it on a daily basis. If you can't find it, that's because YOU can't find it.

Learn from me and avoid the embarassing that-wasn't breaking-news/already-posted pile on. :)

[cmsgop]

Is Hazing allowed? LOL!

[Richard Kimball]

You can see the image, which is good. I'd suggest closing the previous paragraph prior to starting the image tag. This will let the photo show up on the left of the screen instead of showing up at the end of the sentence.

Excellent first effort.

Example A(photograph at end of sentence)

Example B(photograph after closing previous paragraph

See how much better the second image looks?

[Admin Moderator]

Hazing of the poster cmsgop is always allowed.

[Admin Moderator]

Bridezilla always looks stunning.

[Graymatter]

Let me guess---you're in advertising? :)

Thanks for the tip. After 5 decades of surpassing literacy I now face half an hour trying to learn how to close a paragraph.
To the sandbox!

[Admin Moderator]

It's simple. I'll show you right now. Use this code:

Type your picture text<P>

<img src="Insert your picture url here"><P>

Will look like this:

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Blushing Bride:

[WinOne4TheGipper]

This does not belong in breaking news. Make your time, newbie.;-)