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It's time for a posting refresher course (Welcome Newbies)
Admin Moderator
| October 27, 2003
| Admin Moderator
Posted on 10/27/2003 10:41:53 AM PST by Admin Moderator
Hi all,
It's time again for another posting refresher course. Thanks for your cooperation.
Only one these topics will show up in the sidebars, 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 categories 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.
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Constitution/Conservatism - Discussion of conservatism and conservative principles and issues.
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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.
Vanities and General Interest.
Your Opinion/Questions - All non-sourced non-news threads are posted here. This doesn’t mean your one thought is a thread by itself. 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 Interest. Vanities should be limited to the mission of Free Republic.
General interest – Is for discussions of news and interest topics unrelated to the news forum. We will move articles unrelated to the news forum here.
To avoid duplicate posts, please search before posting.
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The best method to search is to pick a key word or two from the title. If the article you are posting is, “Agency to probe alleged spousal abuse of Terri Schiavo", start with 'Schiavo' for the key word. If it is a hot topic, you might want to use two or more keywords, in this case, try ‘Schiavo’ and ‘Terri’. For an effective search, select 'match all words' and select 'order by post time'.
TOPICS: Announcements; Breaking News; Free Republic
KEYWORDS: 12345678901234567890; abcdefghijklmnopqrst; adminlectureseries; blatantkeywordabus; elections; faq; fr; he4gotaboutkeywords; humor; keywords; lexicon; newbies; philosophy; stopkeywordabuse; tagline; vanitykeyword
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To: GO65
You've just been "pinged" which "bumped" this thread. See the FReeper Lexicon link in post #17. ;-)
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posted on
10/27/2003 11:01:09 AM PST
by
Jen
(Support our troops! Share the news of our military's successes that the liberal media won't report.)
To: GO65
ping - notifying someone or a group of someones who have not been participating on the thread to the existence of the thread. Some who indicate a continued interest in a particular topic join "ping lists" that are used to ping multiple people.
bump - a method of keeping a thread in the "latest posts" category. Frequent bumping might prevent a thread or topic from being ignored by the group.
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posted on
10/27/2003 11:02:56 AM PST
by
Tall_Texan
("Is Rush a Hypocrite?" http://righteverytime2.blogspot.com)
To: AntiJen; GO65
To: Admin Moderator
ping
To: yonif
And Zots! Don't forget the ZOTS!
25
posted on
10/27/2003 11:07:48 AM PST
by
theDentist
(Liberals can sugarcoat sh** all they want. I'm not biting.)
To: theDentist
There is an explanation of Zot on our profile page.
To: Admin Moderator
on "Caption This" photos, do you need to link to the original photo, or where you got the photo from, ie Drudge Report? Are there any other criteria for these threads?
Hey, in less than a month, I won't be a newbie! I'll be a onebie!
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posted on
10/27/2003 11:11:16 AM PST
by
eyespysomething
(As iron sharpens iron, so one man sharpens another. (Proverbs 27:17))
To: Admin Moderator
What? You didn't like the Fifth edition that I posted?
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posted on
10/27/2003 11:11:48 AM PST
by
Jen
(Support our troops! Share the news of our military's successes that the liberal media won't report.)
To: Admin Moderator; Kathy in Alaska; MoJo2001; LindaSOG; LaDivaLoca; bentfeather; Bethbg79; ...
FYI PING from the Admin Moderator
To: AntiJen
To: 68-69TonkinGulfYachtClub
I'm just dismuffed it took you this long to ping ME!! Owwwww...
To: GO65
There are two rather different ways of reading Free Republic:
- Using the Latest Articles page: This page shows articles (also called "threads") in the order in which they are first posted.
- Using the Latest Posts page: This page shows each post (whether a new article, or a comment/reply within an existing article thread) in sequential order.
Many view FR using the "Latest Posts" page. Whenever any comment/reply is posted to an article thread, that causes the article to which the reply/comment is posted to be listed on the "Latest Posts" page, thus "bumping" it to the top of the list of latest posts.
The term ping comes from internet/UNIX slang. Many years ago, when the internet was very young, a little Unix program was written named ping. It's purpose was to send ICMP-protocol packets over the IP transport layer from one computer to another, for the purpose of verifying that the internet connectivity between the two computers was functioning as expected. Using the ping program is analogous to dialing a phone number to see whether it rings, and whether the person who answers is who you expect them to be. The term's usage on FR is metaphorical. We use it to notify someone that a thread may be of interest to them.
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posted on
10/27/2003 11:23:07 AM PST
by
sourcery
(Moderator bites can be very nasty!)
To: Admin Moderator
Thank You Admin Moderator.
33
posted on
10/27/2003 11:23:41 AM PST
by
TexKat
To: Admin Moderator
That's the one I posted in #17.
Would you like some coffee??? ;-) (just teasing - don't zot me!!!)
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posted on
10/27/2003 11:31:17 AM PST
by
Jen
(Support our troops! Share the news of our military's successes that the liberal media won't report.)
To: Admin Moderator
Hey, Thanks. I have been with FR since mid march & in reading this & the various comments/posts that followed, I learned QUITE A FEW THINGS.
My biggest "awe s**t" is to be reading a thread & seeing:
no post but statement "removed by admin. moderator".. the voyerism in me is VERY CURIOUS..
Thank God for FR and for President Bush ~!
35
posted on
10/27/2003 11:31:50 AM PST
by
DollyCali
(Authenticity: To have Arrived !)
To: DollyCali
Near the top of the thread, in the 'keywords', click on ADMINLECTURESERIES. We try to place all our threads there. Lots of interesting things you might like to know.
To: Admin Moderator
How about an admonition to post under the original title! When the title is made up by the original poster duplicate threads will happen
37
posted on
10/27/2003 11:38:08 AM PST
by
Nov3
(one day at a time since 10/12/1984)
To: Nov3; All
Posting incorrect titles is a hassle for everyone, and we have duplicates everyday for that reason. Thanks for the reminder. Please use the orginal titles from the source.
To: 68-69TonkinGulfYachtClub; Admin Moderator
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posted on
10/27/2003 12:03:30 PM PST
by
MeekOneGOP
(Check out the Texas Chicken D 'RATS!: http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/news/keyword/Redistricting)
To: Admin Moderator; All
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posted on
10/27/2003 12:04:17 PM PST
by
trussell
(PRAYER WORKS!!)
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