teeheehee.....took me a while to figure some of this stuff out....
http://www.freerepublic.com/perl/profile?u=66513 This is the Admin Moderator's profile page and will explain the Zot....
bump...is like an 'amen' and sends the article to the top of the latests posts (bttt is bump to the top)
ping is when you want to alert another Freeper to the thread, you put the Freepers screenname in the reply box and ping in your reply box
Thank you so much!! I have been wanting to ask this for days but could not find a place to really ask it without feeling stupid!! Thanks again!!