Question on posting an article for a non-newbie.

Rodney King ^ | today | Rodney King

[Rodney King]

OK, let' say I want to post an article. How come sometimes I have the option "post" in the upper right hand corner and sometimes I don't?

Let me illustrate what I mean:

I want to post an article. I open FR and get this:

http://www.freerepublic.com/home.htm

OK, great. I can just hit post. But here is the problem, first I want to make sure that what I want to post hasn't bee posted yet. So I hit "threads", and I am here:

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/browse?ao=1

OK, great. I can post here if I want.. but I still haven't checked to see if my article has been posted yet. So I click "all of the above" to make sure that when I search I am searching the whole site. I get the following:

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/browse

Hmm. The "post" option has magically disappeared! But that's ok for now. So, I type in the name of the article. Let's say it is "Ron Jeremy endorses Guiliani".

I get the following: http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/search?m=all;o=time;s=Ron%20Jeremy%20endorses%20Giuliani

OK, Fantastic! Nobody has posted the story yet. Great. So I will post it. Well, guess what? I can't! There is no "post" button in the upper right hand corner. How come? What is FR without posts? Why can't I hit "post" whenever I feel like it?

So what do I do? Well, there is "forum" in the upper right corner. Great. I'll go to the forum. One must be able to post in the forum right?

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/browse

Wrong! "post" is still not an option.

OK. So I will hit "threads". That will work, right? After all, earlier when I hit "threads" I got the option to post. So I hit threads:

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/browse?ao=1

Nope. What is going on? I just want to post an article? Why is it so hard?

So, eventually, I just go to my bookmarks and startup FR again.

[Rodney King]

Anyone know why its so hard to post a thread?

[digger48]

I just go back to the FR Home page

it's always there.



but I'm curious about this too

[flashbunny]

Wait a minute, Ron Jeremy endorsed Giuliani?????

[faq]

Are you logged in?

[ClearCase_guy]

I think you have to be logged in if you want to post a thread.

[Admin Moderator]

The link http://freerepublic.com/focus/browse displays posts from all the forums and does not have a 'post' option because the software doesn't know which forum you want to post to.

In order to actually post a thread you must select one of the forums at the upper right of the page, eg. http://freerepublic.com/focus/f-bloggers/browse. Now there will be a post button and your post will go to the bloggers forum

[rellimpank]

--I have the "post" page bookmarked and positioned immediately blow my regular FR bookmark--just copy the headline in "search" and if it's not there, return to the article and copy it to the "post" page--

[rellimpank]

---aarrrgh--"blow"="below"

[deport]

Yep, confusing at times. But I operate with several windows open one of which I'll use as a window to post the article, another the window in which the article I want to post is located, another in which I can search the forum to see if the article has been posted.

[KC Burke]

When I can't find that link, I just give up and post it at DU where they promptly delete it.

[Echo Talon]

So, I type in the name of the article. Let's say it is "Ron Jeremy endorses Guiliani".

OMG, WTF? LOL

[gcruse]

ROFL !!!

[RedRover]

Thanks. I never figured that out. This was an educational thread.

[Rodney King]

So, it all goes back to that dark day when suddenly I couldn't just post and read articles, but had to subscribe or something.

[RedRover]

;)

[JRios1968]

In this case, it's proper to ask ARE YOU LOGGED IN?