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

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- 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.

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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'.

[Sub-Driver]

you may want to add rules on altering news headlines....it is what it is...And while on the topic can we get a list of sites that are "persona non grata"?....Call it the "No Posting List"?

[glock rocks]

OMG Yes!

yes yes yes.

[gobucks]

Ditto Sub-Driver's request about the sites.

Did Emily Post have an ettiquette chapter written somewhere for a newbie? I seem to break a lot of rules....

But, my mother, a leftist, could talk alot on that :).

[Admin Moderator]

It's automated. Jim, is there a list?

[Jim Robinson]

No. There is no list.

[Admin Moderator]

Thanks.

[Friend of thunder]

is there a list?

What about sites that do not want us posting quotes? I know there are some but I am not sure which ones they are.

[DoughtyOne]

I know there is a breaking news, but is there a Busting out News? ;)

[LayoutGuru2]

Great tagline!

[Jim Robinson]

Don't post from racist sites, white supremacy sites, white nationalist sites, or sites promoting violence, revolution, rebellion, secession, etc. Don't post from illegal drug pushing sites or pornography sites. Don't post from vanity sites, blogs, forums, or weirdo science, UFO or other such nonsense sites. Dont post from conspiracy sites. Don't post from TAX scammer sites. Don't post from Nazi, Anarchist, Comnmie, socialist or other left-wing sites. Don't post commercial messages or pleas for fundraising for outside causes. Don't spam our forum with links to your own website. No one likes spam.

In other words FreeRepublic.com is a news forum. A conservative news forum. We're not interested in what the scumbags on DU have to say or other such garbage. We're here to discuss the news (especially political news) and issues that are important to us from the conservative standpoint.

And, no I do not have a list of such sites. Commonsense ought to be guide enough.

[jaz.357]

Gottcha! Thanks. Will give it a try.

[jaz.357]

[BraveMan]

Can I subscribe to the Comment #XX Removed by Moderator posts?

I always arrive too late to see them . . .

[The Mayor]

do you know what you did wrong?

[ladyinred]

Whiner! :-)

[ladyinred]

If your post doesn't seem to post, reload the page before you hit post again, most likely it has posted.

A lesson I learned the hard way! I never hit post twice now, no matter what!!!!

[TaxRelief]

If your post doesn't seem to post, reload the page before you hit post again, most likely it has posted.

Reload it in a new window! Because if it didn't post you could lose a great rant...

[Libertina]

Not a newbie, but still learned something, thank you!

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