[Admin Moderator]

As always, welcome newbies, ask questions of anyone, we'll do our best to help and direct you. If anyone has additional helpful links, please post them. Thanks for your cooperation.

[toupsie]

Amen!

[MEG33]

BUMP!

[stylin19a]

already posted

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1179671/posts

[EdReform]

Admin Lecture Series Bump

[Constitution Day]

THANK YOU!

BUT - There are also a lot of vanities from Freepers who've been here long enough to know better.
IHMO, they're only doing that because they're attention wh*res.

[Maigrey]

What do you do when a blog, such as Powerline Blog has more credibility than CBS?
Can you tell I'm really enjoying this?

[EggsAckley]

Thanks for addressing this. Yesterday the forum was deluged by threads from newbies, obviously triggered by the mention of FR in the media. The deluge caused the site to flow very slowly; today, thankfully, the speed is back up to normal.

I'm glad to see so many new sign-ups; hoping that by the next fundraiser, the newbies will respond generously. Of course, we've encountered more than the usual number of trolls, and still will. But it just proves the growing power of FR.

[Redcoat LI]

Don't forget to mention, no freestylin' with the title of the article.

[ambrose]

We've also had way too much thread pulling of articles that have similar headlines, but differing content.

[treeclimber]

Dont be a posting girlie man

[ambrose]

Other pet peeve is when some blog leaks rumors of upcoming poll numbers, and it gets posted... yet when the actual real news article on those poll numbers are posted, such article is pulled and labeled a "duplicate".

[xm177e2]

Blog posts related to the CBS memo controversy, specifically blog posts offering new information/theories about the controversy, are allowed in the news forum, right? The chat forum is for personal stuff, for opinions that people got sick of reading in the news section. But the Ra^therGate posts with valuable information would be considered fair for the news section, right?

I mean, the first web site to point out that the memos could be duplicated exactly with the default settings of MS Word was LGF, a blog. Shouldn't that go into the news section (which is after all called "news/ACTIVISM") instead of being lost in vanity-land?

The real problem is that "bloggers" should not be in the name of the chat forum. Blog posts can be hard news, or be thoughtful enough to belong in the news section. It should be a judgement call by FReepers/admins as to in which forum a blog post belongs (the same way certain vanity threads are allowed in the news section of FR, such as "After Action Reports" from FReeps)

[mhking]

Thank you!

[don-o]

Promoting your personal web site.

Except Jeff Head.

[Fiddlstix]

HTML Help Threads for Newbies
(And Anyone Else Who Needs It)

• HTML Bootcamp (or Wow, how did they do that?)
  
  
• Formatting Messages with Outlook Express (HTML Bootcamp)
  
  
• Basic html formatting
  
  
• R U new? Some Tips....
  
  
• HTML for FReeper Newbies
  
  
• HTML Sandbox (Original Thread)
  
  
• HTML Sandbox (Thread Two)
  
  
• HTML Sandbox (Thread Three)
  
  
• Reference HTML Cheatsheet
  
  (Also This for New Freepers)
  
• Revised & Updated! -- THE LEXICON OF FREEREPUBLIC -- (FR dictionary, more help for newcomers!)

[isom35]

this has probably been asked before, but can you rig things so that a new person cant post for a week? that way maybe we all would not have to wade through all that zot stuff.

[shezza]

BUMP! Glad to see the rosters are growing. Set beebers to stune!

[AlexW]

I would like to add, I am in Romania for the next 2 weeks, and I use FR as my only link to news.
The problem, I am on a very bad dial-up and old computer.
I try to download threads for viewing offline, but the silly
graphics and photos, which are often repeats , make it hard to do.
I am not saying that they are bad...I love them, but the silly repeats of burning toast and other overused graphics add nothing.
I wish I could get a text only download.

[PhiKapMom]

You are my hero! I was slammed the other day when complaining about too many vanities taking up space that were just someone's opinion that should have been on a thread not separate.

Thank you so much for posting this -- it was getting very annoying!

[UnbelievingScumOnTheOtherSide]

Not exactly a newbie (2002) but I was looking for some of this the other day. THANK YOU