Posted on 09/11/2004 12:24:17 PM PDT by Admin Moderator
Edited on 09/11/2004 8:05:54 PM PDT by Admin Moderator. [history]
We've had a lot of new folks join up recently. Welcome aboard, this thread is a gentle reminder of some basic posting guidelines. (And for some of you old timers as well) Please read the follow, and ask any questions. We will all try to help you out.
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If it's a breaking news topic, check breaking news first, it's probably already posted.
To avoid duplicate posts, please search before posting. Use the published article title to prevent duplicates. The best method to search is to pick a key word or two from the title. If the article you are posting is, "Dan Rather Memo", start with 'Memo' for the key word. If it is a hot topic, you might want to use two or more keywords, in this case, try 'memo rather'. For an effective search, select 'match all words' and select 'order by post time'.
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 (Chat). Vanities should be limited to the mission of Free Republic.
For all of you who have blogs or personal web sites or personal news or opinion or forum sites that you would like to discuss or promote on Free Republic, here's the place to do it.
Our new Bloggers & Personal forum is for:
- Posting from your blog.
- Posting from other peoples blogs.
- Posting your from your personal web site.
- Posting from other peoples personal web sites.
- Promoting your blog.
- Promoting other peoples blogs.
- Promoting your personal web site.
- Promoting your favorite web sites.
- Posting from your favorite outside forums.
- Posting from your favorite lefty forums or sites (DUh and the like).
Click on the "Bloggers & Personal" forum link on the Forums sidebar of the latest posts pages.
Hopefully, this will become a very popular forum for promoting and or discussing blogs and personal opinion/news/forum pages.
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Statement by the founder of Free Republic
Jim and the Mod threads (cool band name)
HTML Sandbox (practice html here, learn new tricks)
It's been discussed, and Jim doesn't want to limit newbies from posting when they sign up.
The best way to site news is do what you did. Many times people will post something they heard, then search for a news story to accompany it. Of course, it should be news related, not something you saw on Trading Spaces for example.
We have numbers based on the order we were selected to be mods. We also have nicknames for each other to make things a little more personal.
I just banned him ;-)
We miss a many dupes and your work is appreciated.
"It's difficult to tell one Admin Moderator from another. How does an Admin Mod know which one they are"
They have secret decoder rings.
We have numbers when posting on our abuse report page. There is an automatic number as our 'name'. For example, Admin Moderator (#1), Admin Moderator (#2), etc. It gets interesting when 2 or 3 of us goof off on a thread because it just shows up as Admin Moderator.
You're very welcome and thanks much to all the AM's, especially when they exercise their patience with me when I "knee-jerk"...;-)
PS, your check cleared the bank too.
Hey, who's the mod?
And it is a vanity.
Welcome to FreeRepublic.
Still waiting for your check to clear...watch it...
Are we gonna re-visit this again? ;-)
Talking to yourself? hehehehe
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LOL, see #122, that wasn't me.
Wow, we've been doing this for 3 years now. How time flys.
Well - that makes it much simpler to deduce...;-)
Perfectly clear to me.
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