Thank you very much for the warm welcome and the invites to the ping lists. Is there a list of ping lists?
It will take me a while to figure things out.
I see that these message threads have one message after another (newer ones under the older ones). Seems like a pretty cool way to follow all the messages in the topic thread. But sometimes there are so many messages posted in a short time frame that it is really helpful to quote the message text that you are responding to.
Is there a quote button here, or do you just highlight and copy and paste like I have been doing?
And also if I may additionally ask, does the quoted text go at the top or bottom of the post? It seems like for shorter selected quotes they should be at the top with the reply under them. Yours was a longer amount of text so I copied and dropped it underneath my reply. Or does it matter?
Some forums use [ and ] tags but I see the message HTML enabled and I assume that means I can use the < and > html tags for format text commands like bold and italics and color ?
If so is that how pictures are posted, by using the < img=”picture.jpg” > html tag ?
Sorry, I am rusty on my text editing of html, as I have too much familiarity just using copy and paste into Microsoft Office and similar word processing programs, and that doesn’t seem to work here...
Thanks again.
Again, welcome to FR Ms. Kim. There are various ping lists also , you can find a group of like minded folks and ask to get on their ping list.
I am on one run by Freeper LucyT. The list has some great conservative women on it, Fred Nerks being one of the most prominant of intellectuals on the entire site.
It will take a while to see your way around, but don’t be afraid to ask to join a ping list, they keep you up to date on the things you may find you’re interested in, often way ahead of the news outlets.
If you want an html primer . Free Republic has it here: http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/2650195/posts Most of us get by with the simplest ones. As to picture posts, most of us have an account at photobucket, or flickr or some such site that solicits photo uploads which automatically give you the html link for the uploaded photo. Photobucket has a lot of java based editing software which allows one to add text etc.You can also hot link to photos ad other text sites.You have to be careful with copyrighted photos and especially cartoons.Some of the best political humor is composed by freepers right here, using photo shop.One of these is a hillarious ZOT photo ( there are many).
As to ping lists there is no master list of them that I know of, generally you can read an article from one ( eg. Anne Coulter Ping List) and ask the person posting the article to be put on the list. This is usually done privately through Freep Mail.The private ping lists are like mini fraternities, once you encounter one, you can ask to be included.They are generally topic area specific, and if you find yourself interested in one topic or another , you will encounter the list manager. Just look for the PING post on an article thread. As to posting text, the convention here is that it is usually at the top unless its from an outside source. Also if you mention a Freepers name in your post it is also a convention here to include them when you post. There is no quote button. Its good to have a home page, and most put info. there but generally nothing that would make them insecure.You access that by clicking account on your mail page.
