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How to post a thread and other interesting facts, part II. (Welcome Newbies)
April 7, 2006 | Olive

Posted on 04/07/2006 2:12:34 PM PDT by Admin Moderator

Hi everyone, it's been awhile since we had a refresher course on the posting guidelines. We've had a lot of newbies sign up. Welcome Aboard! The more the merrier! And it doesn't hurt you longtimes to re-read this. As always, we're here to help. Ask questions, we'll do our best to answer.



Are you ready maggot?


SEARCH

If it's a breaking news topic, check breaking news first, it's probably already posted. Check the breaking news sidebar first. Don't try to be the first one with the story, you've already been beaten by about eight threads.

To avoid duplicate posts, please search before posting. Use the published article title to prevent duplicates. The best method to search is to pick a key word or two from the title. If the article you are posting is, "Cindy Sheehan is a witch in a ditch", start with 'Cindy' for the key word. If it is a hot topic, you might want to use two or more keywords, in this case, try 'Cindy Sheehan'. For an effective search, select 'match all words' and select 'order by post time'.

Search "Cindy Sheehan.

If your thread title has a unique word, like 'moonbat' try using that word first in your search. Again, use the "order by post time" option to see the latest threads posted.

It also helps to scan the keywords at the top right hand side. Check "Popular Keywords". If you're posting an immigration thread, nine times out of ten, it's been posted, or your one line vanity, can be included with the hundreds of already posted threads.

Please confine your vanitities to actual thoughts, not, "OMG, did you jsu8t see waht XXXX just sade?!!!!!!!"


Vanities and General Interest.

General/Chat

All non-sourced non-news threads are posted here. All fluff stories are posted here. We are a political forum, not a pit bull, SUV or porno site. Keep your threads to a political nature. There are of course exceptions, but post those to the General/Chat forum.

This doesn’t mean your one thought is a thread by itself, and your vanities should be substantial to be considered a news forum thread. Others will be moved to the various forums. 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/Chat. Vanities should be limited to the mission of Free Republic.

Free Republic is the premier online gathering place for independent, grass-roots conservatism on the web. We're working to roll back decades of governmental largesse, to root out political fraud and corruption, and to champion causes which further conservatism in America. And we always have fun doing it. Hoo-yah!


Free Republic is huge, we're pushing 250,000 registered posters, so don't clutter up our news forum with your one thought lines, local interest aligator stories, or whatever floats your boat. Jim and John have worked hard to keep us current, let's utilize the tools they've built. There are areas to have fun discussions as well, but let's keep the news forum dedicated to news. And at times we'll let something fun in news, move something you think is important to chat, and variations of. We're trying to run a forum, not dis you as a poster. Nothing personal, it's just business, and we have to cater to a multitude of personalities. If you disagree, the fastest way to contact us is hit the abuse link, state your name and other usefull stuff, like a link. We're human, we make mistakes. And we can't always read inflection into posts.


Bloggers & Personal

For all of you who have blogs or personal web sites that you would like to discuss or promote on Free Republic, here's the place to do it.

Our Bloggers & Personal forum is for:

Click on the "Bloggers & Personal" forum link on the Forums sidebar of the latest posts pages.


We know many of you think your blog is special. There are some blogs out there worthy of news, like Little Green Footballs. If your blog scoops something, and we blog it, again, let us know. We see most all articles posted, we can analyze your content and compare it to similar threads. We aren't personally trying to 'trash' you. We're trying to keep FR optimized. You have a problem, just ask, we'll work with you. Again, the fastest way, use the abuse function, leave your name and we'll try to get back to you as fast as we can. You can always FR mail us, but that might take longer. Remember, there are 12 of us and 30,000+ posts daily. We don't see it all.


Other sidebars

Only one of these topics will show up in a sidebar, 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 category 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.


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.

Any State or Country - Do not spam every single state or country, please use only those that pertain to your article.


And lastly, please bookmark this excerpt only list, Jim updates frequently.

Updated FR Excerpt and Link Only or Deny Posting List due to Copyright Complaints

Don't think you are being sly or tricky, the mods have seen every trick in the book, so don't try to get around the posting rules with creative antics, your thread will be deleted. We have these rules for a reason. We want Free Republic to be on the internet, not shut down by liberals trying to silence our voices. Please, if you post an article and get an excerpt rule, follow it. Don't try to sneak in a full article in a post, we'll delete it.

We will pull unlinked threads that might violate the excerpt rules.


Other links:

Statement by the founder of Free Republic

Jim and the Mod threads (cool band name)

HTML Sandbox (practice html here, learn new tricks)


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1 posted on 04/07/2006 2:12:41 PM PDT by Admin Moderator
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To: Admin Moderator

You left out the part about saying prayers before the ZOT.

2 posted on 04/07/2006 2:17:03 PM PDT by FreedomFarmer (If R<1ohm, Resitance is Futile!)
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To: Admin Moderator
I will not be the first to do the tired "Already posted" reply.
3 posted on 04/07/2006 2:17:14 PM PDT by Flyer (Preserve American Culture)
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To: Admin Moderator

I still don't know how to go between the different subscrition deals.. I like the old format. Anyway, you forgot to post that it is against the rules to post a thread about a female teacher/male student unless there is an accompanying pic of the teacher.


4 posted on 04/07/2006 2:18:04 PM PDT by Rodney King (No, we can't all just get along.)
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To: Admin Moderator
Book marked & Bumped!
5 posted on 04/07/2006 2:21:50 PM PDT by tiredoflaundry (She left suds in the bucket, And the clothes hangin' out on the line)
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To: Rodney King

Try this link, (top of the latest threads page)

{more....}
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/my/

Then

{subscriptions}
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/my/subscriptions

And set your 'order' (right hand side sidebar configurations), one being first, 5 being fifth. "MAX" is the number of articles you want to see. 5, 10, 15, etc will show 5 or 10 or 15 articles in your sidebar. 'Color' is something John was playing with. Enter that at your own risk.


6 posted on 04/07/2006 2:26:02 PM PDT by Admin Moderator
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To: Rodney King
An oldie, but a goodie:

5th Edition of the Lexicon of FreeRepublic * * A helpful FR dictionary for newcomers * *

7 posted on 04/07/2006 2:26:16 PM PDT by BreitbartSentMe (Ex-Dem since 2001 *Folding@Home for the Gipper - Join the FReeper Folders*)
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I can post in color occasionally, can't I? Thanks.
8 posted on 04/07/2006 2:26:58 PM PDT by Shimmer128
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To: Admin Moderator

How do you attach a picture?


9 posted on 04/07/2006 2:27:53 PM PDT by Auntbee (I have become comfortably numb.)
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To: Bush_Democrat

Is that the latest?


10 posted on 04/07/2006 2:28:07 PM PDT by Admin Moderator
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To: Admin Moderator; All
USE KEYWORDS!

11 posted on 04/07/2006 2:28:53 PM PDT by proud_yank (A liberal's 'generosity' is limited to the funds available in someone else's account.)
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To: Auntbee
Snakes on a Plane!

12 posted on 04/07/2006 2:29:50 PM PDT by evets (beer)
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To: Admin Moderator

Being a well-trained FReeper, I searched on the word "Lexicon" and "FreeRepublic" and that was the latest one to come up. It does look like it needs to be updated - I'm series, my beeber is stuned...


13 posted on 04/07/2006 2:31:32 PM PDT by BreitbartSentMe (Ex-Dem since 2001 *Folding@Home for the Gipper - Join the FReeper Folders*)
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To: Auntbee
Type this:

<img src="put image url here">

For example

<img src="http://www.richardpoe.com/images/jimrob.jpg">

will end up as


14 posted on 04/07/2006 2:33:16 PM PDT by Admin Moderator
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To: Auntbee

"How do you attach a picture?"

OK, here's the Reader's Digest version...

1. Go to PhotoBucket and register for a free account http://www.photobucket.com/

2. When you're in your album, under Add Pictures, there is a place to click if the photo you want to place is somewhere on the internet, or there is a Browse button if the picture is somewhere on your own computer.

3. Hit the Submit button to upload the picture to your PhotoBucket account, and look at it. There are 3 boxes under the picture with coding in them. Pick the middle one (the one that starts with "img", highlight it and copy it (edit-->copy)

4. Come over here to FreeRepublic, open your reply window, and paste it in (edit-->paste)

5. Preview it (remember, preview is our friend) Voila - it should appear like magic!


15 posted on 04/07/2006 2:33:21 PM PDT by BreitbartSentMe (Ex-Dem since 2001 *Folding@Home for the Gipper - Join the FReeper Folders*)
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To: Bush_Democrat

Sounds like a good project for you to take on!


16 posted on 04/07/2006 2:34:16 PM PDT by Admin Moderator
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To: Bush_Democrat; Admin Moderator
I'm series, my beeber is stuned...

Hate to sound like an idiot, but what is a 'beeber' or a 'Stuned Beeber'?! (Still somewhat of a Newbie!!)
17 posted on 04/07/2006 2:34:19 PM PDT by proud_yank (A liberal's 'generosity' is limited to the funds available in someone else's account.)
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To: Admin Moderator
Some more items to consider: Thanks!
18 posted on 04/07/2006 2:34:48 PM PDT by upchuck (Wikipedia.com - the most unbelievable web site in the world.)
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To: Admin Moderator
I sent a rather blunt email to Diane Feinstein last night which I posted on FR and have just received a reply from her which I'd also like to post. My question is since the original thread is now pages back should I still post it there?
19 posted on 04/07/2006 2:34:58 PM PDT by AmeriBrit (ILLEGAL IMMIGRATION IS A WEAPON OF MASS DESTRUCTION !)
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To: Admin Moderator

Have we just had a system change?

When did the keywords get moved to the upper right.....it's nice.


20 posted on 04/07/2006 2:37:17 PM PDT by Ernest_at_the_Beach (History is soon Forgotten,)
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