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Admin Moderator ^ | 8-9-05 | The Mods

Posted on 08/09/2005 5:18:14 PM PDT by Admin Moderator

Edited on 08/09/2005 6:51:08 PM PDT by Admin Moderator. [history]

We've had many new folks join up recently. Welcome aboard, this thread is a gentle reminder of some basic posting guidelines. (And for some of you old timers as well) Please read the follow, and ask any questions. We will all try to help you out. Anyone who has a link that might be useful, feel free to post it.


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The statement of policy by the admin mods at the start of this thread is worth reading.

I will resume posting some health and medicine articles to chat if I think it could generate a decent amount of interesting comments to the thread.

It's been my experience that once an article was reassigned to chat by the admin mods, it generated no further comments except maybe funny or ridiculous pictures being posted in response as comments.

Since I can't type other than hunt and peck, and most of the health and medicine articles that I post are of the "for what it's worth" or "for your information" nature, I will continue making direct links to most of the health and medicine articles as unrelated links in comments to other health and science threads when I ping you for the health and science ping list, as opposed to going to the trouble of posting the article. This will probably be the case with almost all articles that require excerpting.


281 posted on 08/12/2005 10:42:27 AM PDT by neverdem (May you be in heaven a half hour before the devil knows that you're dead.)
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To: neverdem

Thanks for the ping. It's stunning you can do such a good job - and do it with the hunt and peck system.


282 posted on 08/12/2005 10:49:40 AM PDT by GOPJ (A person who will lie for you, will lie against you.)
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To: GOPJ; neverdem
Welcome To The Internet!
Click the Pic J

283 posted on 08/12/2005 11:07:31 AM PDT by Fiddlstix (This Tagline for sale. (Presented by TagLines R US))
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To: Fiddlstix

Exactly! LOL!


284 posted on 08/12/2005 11:47:08 AM PDT by neverdem (May you be in heaven a half hour before the devil knows that you're dead.)
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To: Fiddlstix

I'm not getting a pic or a link, but I suspect it's funny... Want to try again?


285 posted on 08/12/2005 11:47:37 AM PDT by GOPJ (A person who will lie for you, will lie against you.)
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To: neverdem

makes sense.


286 posted on 08/12/2005 3:14:30 PM PDT by bitt ('We will all soon reap what the ignorant are now sowing.' Victor Davis Hanson)
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To: neverdem
It's been my experience that once an article was reassigned to chat by the admin mods, it generated no further comments except maybe funny or ridiculous pictures being posted in response as comments.

I've always thought there should be a "Chat" and "Semi-Chat" section, for that very reason.

My Preferences is set up so I can see Chat threads because otherwise, I would miss some good threads, but it can be quite annoying at times to wade through it all.

287 posted on 08/12/2005 3:59:31 PM PDT by Nita Nupress
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To: Admin Moderator

Shouldn't this be in "chat"?


(ducking)


288 posted on 08/15/2005 7:01:47 PM PDT by mabelkitty (Lurk forever, but once you post, your newbness shines like a new pair of shoes.)
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To: Admin Moderator

Hey, you guys started this.


289 posted on 08/15/2005 7:04:01 PM PDT by groanup (shred for Ian)
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To: Admin Moderator
Some sites have a nasty habit of changing the picture associated with the link you use and we get some really nasty stuff out of it.

I burned DU with this one a couple of years ago!!

It was great fun!!

290 posted on 08/15/2005 7:07:15 PM PDT by Eaker (My Wife Rocks!)
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To: Admin Moderator

I wish the list of "must exerpt" or "no post " list were easier to find. I sometimes find an article from an obscure source that I am not sure about. Could this be placed on the homepage somewhere - maybe around the info about the LATimes thing?


291 posted on 08/15/2005 7:08:15 PM PDT by don-o (Don't be a Freeploader. Do the right thing and become a Monthly Donor!)
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To: Admin Moderator
Bloggers & Personal

Is Reason magazine considered a "blog" for the purposes of that forum?

292 posted on 08/16/2005 1:15:56 PM PDT by inquest (FTAA delenda est)
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To: TexasCajun

What about the rule to post a vanity to breaking news upon signing up to announce your arrival?
...a longstanding tradition on FR, right?


As someones who's been around here you should know that this is only allowed if a poster is going to tell the "TRUTH" about George Bush and how stupid he is...or how he's a tool of big oil, and how we the great unwashed need to wake up brfore it's too late.


293 posted on 11/23/2005 6:44:37 AM PST by Valin (Purgamentum init, exit purgamentum)
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To: Allosaurs_r_us

294 posted on 02/02/2006 4:58:49 AM PST by MEG33 (GOD BLESS OUR ARMED FORCES)
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To: don-o; Admin Moderator
I wish the list of "must exerpt" or "no post " list were easier to find

I second that request. It took me about an hour to trace it with a keyword search.
A link on the source page would eliminate much of the confusion, thus helping the mods...

just a thought....

295 posted on 03/02/2008 5:57:42 AM PST by ThreePuttinDude ()... Cevapi & Slivovitz for everyone....()
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