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FR Posting Style Book - format for replying (We seem to be slipping)
Me, Myself and BJungNan
| April 9, 2005
| BJungNan
Posted on 04/09/2005 11:51:09 AM PDT by BJungNan
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To: BJungNan
Dang, that tip made this whole thread worth it! I'm flattered. Thank you for starting this thread.
To: baseballmom
I learn something new everyday. Thanks You're quite welcome, baseballmom.
To: thoughtomator
But isn't this much more aesthetically pleasing? Is what is more aesthetically pleasing? Did you post something else? Something in a color other than black on white? I'm color blind. I can only see your one sentence above. =;^)
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posted on
04/10/2005 8:44:35 AM PDT
by
Bloody Sam Roberts
(Remember that great love and great achievements involve great risk)
To: mowkeka
You need to put markup tags on either side of the text that is to be italicized. For example, you'd type this:
<I>This text is to be italicized</I>
And you'd see this in the post:
This text is to be italicized
Using preview can be very useful in making sure you got the tags right.
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posted on
04/10/2005 10:27:33 AM PDT
by
thoughtomator
("The Passion of the Opus" - 2 hours of a FReeper being crucified on his own self-pitying thread)
To: Bloody Sam Roberts
Yeah I was being playful and posted some stuff in bright green, nothing of any importance.
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posted on
04/10/2005 10:28:59 AM PDT
by
thoughtomator
("The Passion of the Opus" - 2 hours of a FReeper being crucified on his own self-pitying thread)
To: thoughtomator
nothing of any importance. Just joshin' ya. I saw it the first time. But I thought, "What if somebody can't see the color green."
Just me being a wise-arse. Again.
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posted on
04/10/2005 11:42:08 AM PDT
by
Bloody Sam Roberts
(Remember that great love and great achievements involve great risk)
To: Alamo-Girl
"I'm a lazy typist. DIR only takes three keystrokes. LOLOL!"
So am I a lazy typist.
But I didn't know of the DIR tag until I saw you use it.
From now on I'm divorcing with "blockquote" and going in a new DIRection. LOL!
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posted on
04/10/2005 9:45:38 PM PDT
by
mjtobias
(Our love for Terri was immense; her parents' love was infinite; God's love is everlasting.)
To: mjtobias
LOLOLOL! Thank you so much for the chuckle! I'm glad the lazy typing tip was helpful.
To: BJungNan
I've been here since almost day one; and I am the one who started consistently italicizing because it made sense.
I also point out egregious spelling errors and still manage to sprout an extra thumb or two from time to time.
My recent bitch is people who can't make sense no matter what the form.
Never mind, I am just old and grumpy.
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posted on
04/10/2005 10:21:54 PM PDT
by
Old Professer
(As darkness is the absence of light, evil is the absence of good; innocence is blind.)
To: Old Professer
It is certainly an honor to have crossed your path here on FR. I thought I had been posting a long time but you have my by at least a couple of years.
And thanks for your contribution to the format. Hope it won't be an uphill battle to keep your early formatting vision alive.
FReep Regards!
BJN
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posted on
04/10/2005 10:52:41 PM PDT
by
BJungNan
(gogov.com - Make it your home page. I did!)
To: Donald Rumsfeld Fan
1. Quote the person you are replying to with italics (if you are replying to someone specifically and what they said).
2. Seperate with a paragraph mark.
3. Show your reply in regular text
Do you mean like this?IP
No; like this. Don't you know anything about Printer's marks? "IP" is about as close to a 'pargraph mark' as I can get with a standard keyboard.
What you used was a 'paragraph tag'.
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posted on
04/12/2005 12:32:28 PM PDT
by
ApplegateRanch
(The world needs more horses, and fewer Jackasses!)
To: mowkeka
Is there some way to put in italics, without entering Word?A question I have always wanted to ask, but dare not. I actually fumbled around trying to put the instruction in front of the posters entry. It did not take. Now I have a new toy besides my too frequent use of bold . Thanks helping an old cowardy cat. LOL
To: thoughtomator
But isn't this much more aesthetically pleasing?
I hate you.:)
To: Dog Gone
Are you quoting from the CGEB Posting Style Book?
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posted on
04/14/2005 12:53:27 PM PDT
by
avg_freeper
(Gunga galunga. Gunga, gunga galunga)
To: WinOne4TheGipper
Fnord!
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posted on
04/14/2005 1:37:51 PM PDT
by
thoughtomator
("The Passion of the Opus" - 2 hours of a FReeper being crucified on his own self-pitying thread)
To: thoughtomator
To: ElPatriota
Ok one BIG question. I do I learn how to post my own what (I don't even know what the name is) Vanity adds? and I mean the proper way. If I see something on the Washington Post and I want to bring into FR, with a link and the whole nine yards, WHERE are the instructions to do that? Um, a vanity is -- well, this thread is a vanity. Overall, they're discouraged.
If you want to post an article, click on "post" in the upper-right hand corner of the lastest posts screen. Keep the article open in its own window. Fill in all the blanks. You'll get a message if you do something really wrong, and it won't let you go on.
Since you mention the WP, remember that the WP (and numerous other sources, listed here as of 4/04) will sue if we post entire articles, so you can just post an excerpt with a link.
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posted on
04/14/2005 1:53:29 PM PDT
by
maryz
To: avg_freeper
Yes, only "she" used a font macro to make "her" posts really beautiful, LOL.
To: Donald Rumsfeld Fan
Hey, Check out my tag line. You should be using it.
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posted on
04/17/2005 8:27:52 PM PDT
by
BJungNan
(Rumsfeld - "We don't have an exit strategy, we have a victory strategy")
To: Rightly Biased
We need to bump this thread or try something else to get the style back in FR. I've seen people now using this methond:
Joe Smith Said: "(What ever joe said)."
Then their reply to what Joe Smith said.
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posted on
04/17/2005 8:31:42 PM PDT
by
BJungNan
(Rumsfeld - "We don't have an exit strategy, we have a victory strategy")
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