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Question about posting on Free Republic (no sarcasm please :-> )

Posted on 10/25/2012 7:26:19 PM PDT by ObozoMustGo2012

Clearly I can post and reply to threads, but looking for instruction on other functions. Specifically like posting pictures, quoting, font styles like underline, bold, strikeout, etc.

Is there a FR help section or link I can click on? Thanks!!!


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To: shibumi

41 posted on 10/25/2012 8:47:16 PM PDT by JoeProBono (A closed mouth gathers no feet - Mater tua caligas exercitus gerit ;-{)
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To: ThomasThomas
While there are several tags which have openings but no closings (<p>, <li>), the </sarc> is interesting because it is the only html tag which has a closing but no opening. It requires potentially infinite look-ahead in order to parse properly. Some FReepers never quite seem to see it at all.
42 posted on 10/25/2012 8:48:47 PM PDT by FredZarguna (I prefer the <derp>stupid comment</derp> tag myself.)
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To: Reddy

Yes, indeed. And my proclivity for beer makes it all the more challenging.

FR is a great source of laughter, often at my own expense.


43 posted on 10/25/2012 8:49:36 PM PDT by One Name (Ultimately, the TRUTH is a razor's edge and no man can sit astride it.)
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To: eartrumpet

Insert a ping (sfl, bfl and bttt are common), and then trackback through your self pings.


44 posted on 10/25/2012 8:51:44 PM PDT by FredZarguna (I prefer the <derp>stupid comment</derp> tag myself.)
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To: JoeProBono


45 posted on 10/25/2012 8:52:24 PM PDT by shibumi (Cover it with gas and set it on fire.)
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To: FredZarguna

Remember the real old days when someone wouldn’t close a tag, and there would be pages of size 80 font flashing red text? When that happened in a MiaT thread, it would take hours to open on dialup.


46 posted on 10/25/2012 8:53:56 PM PDT by eartrumpet
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To: shibumi

OK now I got “CREVO”-

Yeah, that would be like walking into a Bruce Lee fight scene with this crowd.

They’ll argue with you just to argue, and then show you a white blackbird and start quoting greek and whatnot.

Die Heretic Scum!!!


47 posted on 10/25/2012 8:57:47 PM PDT by One Name (Ultimately, the TRUTH is a razor's edge and no man can sit astride it.)
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To: FourtySeven; eartrumpet; ThomasThomas
You can also do this:

In the browser's address bar, add the post number at the end, and then hit the star to do a quick save in your browsers bookmarks.

For example, to go to this thread's post #20, You have "http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/chat/2950332/posts?page=18" in the browsers address bar. Add #20 to make it "http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/chat/2950332/posts?page=18#20" Then save that bookmark.

48 posted on 10/25/2012 8:58:36 PM PDT by FredZarguna (I prefer the <derp>stupid comment</derp> tag myself.)
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To: One Name; shibumi
I got hooked to FR by the birther controversy prior to the 2008 election, missed the crevo thread.

It was like landing on the Island of Misfit Bellicose Broken Toys Who Are Generally P_ssed About The State Of The Country And Ready To Kick Your Ass.

Loved it ever since.

Same here!

49 posted on 10/25/2012 9:01:21 PM PDT by thecodont
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To: One Name

Knives, like the “Punahou Death Stare” are for pussies. Strictly hand-to-hand, or GTFO.


50 posted on 10/25/2012 9:01:54 PM PDT by FredZarguna (I prefer the <derp>stupid comment</derp> tag myself.)
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To: Protect the Bill of Rights; All

Is there a way to post (copy) a link to a specific #comment from a thread?


51 posted on 10/25/2012 9:01:58 PM PDT by opentalk
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To: Delta 21

Who logs on?


52 posted on 10/25/2012 9:03:41 PM PDT by FredZarguna (I prefer the <derp>stupid comment</derp> tag myself.)
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To: One Name

Actually, most of the “mis-crevo-ants” have moved on to a venue called “Darwin Central” or some such.

Or been zotted.

Or just shut up.


53 posted on 10/25/2012 9:04:27 PM PDT by shibumi (Cover it with gas and set it on fire.)
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To: eartrumpet
Remember the real old days when someone wouldn’t close a tag, and there would be pages of size 80 font flashing red text?

Yeah. That's why styles don't work. Way too complicated to analyze and filter out harmful stuff. Used to be you could do stuff like <span style="background:yellow">some highlighted text</span>, and it would actually work.

You could also directly specify size 80 font. Now you have to do an approximation:

WTF‽

54 posted on 10/25/2012 9:07:01 PM PDT by cynwoody
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To: eartrumpet

Yep. Lot of “quoted” threads had the italics version of the inverted-caps-lock-key-effect. Especially on hot threads where dozens of people were trying to close up a tag at the same time. I think that got fixed before Bush’s first run, IIRC; like 1999. Was definitely a source of amusement during the Impeachment.


55 posted on 10/25/2012 9:09:00 PM PDT by FredZarguna (I prefer the <derp>stupid comment</derp> tag myself.)
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To: afraidfortherepublic

Dude don’t even.


56 posted on 10/25/2012 9:10:19 PM PDT by FredZarguna (I prefer the <derp>stupid comment</derp> tag myself.)
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To: One Name

Oh, the Crevo threads were amazing donnybrooks, hundreds of FReepers just whaling away for thousands of replies. Creationists arguing with evolutionists, hence the name. To make it even more piquant, an evolutionist site called Darwin Central had a number of ringers signed up, if you kept two tabs open you could watch them strategizing, high fiving if they felt they’d “scored” a point, hooting in derision if they had no other reply, on and on. A lot of gruntles were dissed.

Where do you shake out on the matter btw, lol?

For that matter, where do you shake out on the eligibility clause? I refuse to use the pejorative “birther,” myself. I see no other choice but to believe that Obama actually is not eligible under Original Intent. I have no interest in playing Where’s Waldo over a piece of paper, it’s pointless imho.

Whether anything can let alone will be done about it, outside of his losing this election, is another matter entirely, though.


57 posted on 10/25/2012 9:11:03 PM PDT by RegulatorCountry
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To: FredZarguna

I’m good with that.

They used to let us carry pocketknives at the penitentiary, but no more.

The brain is the deadliest weapon ever created.


58 posted on 10/25/2012 9:12:39 PM PDT by One Name (Ultimately, the TRUTH is a razor's edge and no man can sit astride it.)
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To: opentalk
Is there a way to post (copy) a link to a specific #comment from a thread?

You can right-click on the post number and Copy Link Location to the clipboard. You should get something like:

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/chat/2950332/posts?page=51#51

59 posted on 10/25/2012 9:13:14 PM PDT by cynwoody
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To: opentalk
Is there a way to post (copy) a link to a specific #comment from a thread?

Nope, can't be done.

a href=http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/chat/2950332/posts?q=1&;page=51#51

60 posted on 10/25/2012 9:13:23 PM PDT by FredZarguna (And if that needed a </sarc> tag, it's time for you to go to bed.)
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