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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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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Eye strain! Whoooooeee
Thank you very much for the insight.
Excellent idea.
Yeay right, that's the ticket!
Shades of CGEB syndrome!
Sounds good. Were you a long time lurker, and just had to register to post that post, or post that article you know wasn't posted and why didn't anyone post that article? There are so many good newbies out there. You were one. I was one, we all were new. The good outweigh the bad 40 to one. The few that are trolls we take care of, and if they have an especially 'interesting' thread, we'll let you all know. Give the genuine newbies a break. We were all new at one time. I'd rather give them the benefit of the doubt if they err on their first or second post or thread, and not zot them immediately. If they are trolls (we'll all know soon enough), let's let them dig their grave. It's so much more fun if the zots have a little history anyway.
Desperately need a glossary here! What's a troll/trolling? ZOT? Lurk/lurking? Vanity?
I haven't been around here long enough to divine this. And, BTW, isn't 34567 a bogus address? (yuk, yuk)
Where's your colored font? You got it all wrong. Try again. We'll give you a mulligan.
You are jealous! No wonder all you guys have a **** ** *** *** girl mods. I'm mod on the right.
Just remember, I'm the cool girl mod on the right. Thanks.
ROTFL!
Ah, you hadda go and say that?
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Edit, Preferences, Privacy & Security, and click on the radio button: "Do not load any images".
Can't speak to M$ Internet Exploder since I haven't used it, like forever.
I can see the post over at DUh right now:
"Duuuuuuudes! Like, I just got nuked by this like, really hot Admin Mod babe! Oh man!!"
BTW What's the Admin Mod on the left doin' next Saturday night? Can I have her phone number?
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