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Sanders · Diamond

Posting articles

Sanders · Diamond

Adding QUOTE boxes ... is a bit tricky

Sanders · Diamond

Posting YouTube

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Previewing post is a good thing, says Martha in house!

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Posting articles

Kbentleyis · Diamond

(gulp) ok

Sanders · Diamond

LOL... This is a quick reply to prior post (hence I do not quote).

It is really simple. The LOOONG version should not dissuade. It is intended to CLARIFY and when we write that LOOONG vesion, it is intended for the novice. Most of you are not novices.

foxyladi14 · Platinum

Sanders wrote:

LOL... This is a quick reply to prior post (hence I do not quote).

It is really simple. The LOOONG version should not dissuade. It is intended to CLARIFY and when we write that LOOONG vesion, it is intended for the novice. Most of you are not novices.

i am

Sanders · Diamond

foxyladi14 wrote:
Sanders wrote:
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It is really simple. The LOOONG version should not dissuade. It is intended to CLARIFY and when we write that LOOONG vesion, it is intended for the novice. Most of you are not novices.
i am

In that case, just follow the first post at the top of the thread for now. Find a good article out there and bring and post. And that will get you started. It is really a lot of fun to start threads and lead the discussion. :)

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Notice how I replied.. I edited out the irrelevant/low relevent part and replaced it with []
I also removed blank lines, and added my reply BELOW the LAST LINE -- you have to click on the end of the line and hit <Return> to get to the new line where to start your reply.

Occasionally, the quoted text is long/has mistakes... Edit it down. I also tend to correct typos in the remaining segment that is still quoted, knowing that the original poster will probably come around and correct them in the original post. Try not to quote anything embarassing that neither the poster (on a different/saner day) nor a third party would want to see in a blog. It is just common courtesy. [A real life example, you wouldnt want a slurry conversation from the bar table repeated in broad daylight.]

I came back to this post and changed the font size of the quoted text. It is simply an example to show how to do various things. In a reply that immediately follows someone, the etiquette is to NOT quote, rather simply reply. If you find that you replied and someone posted something intervening in the meanwhile, you can go to the prior post, do a QUOTE, then cut and bring it down to your post by 'MORE -> ' Edit Post, paste, Submit Post.

-- Edited by Sanders on Sunday 2nd of August 2009 03:55:56 AM

villager4ever · Platinum

Great tutorial! Thank you. blankstare

pcfs · Moderator

Sanders, Thanks for all the help. It takes me longer to get things right. The links I post need to cut off trailing garbage. I hope to be more careful. But if I find a good or even bad ariticle I would like to post so we see all the news on Hillary that is out there. Mostly I post good news on Madame Sec. I love her work at the State Dept.

buffaloboy · Moderator

pcfs wrote:

Sanders, Thanks for all the help. It takes me longer to get things right. The links I post need to cut off trailing garbage. I hope to be more careful. But if I find a good or even bad ariticle I would like to post so we see all the news on Hillary that is out there. Mostly I post good news on Madame Sec. I love her work at the State Dept.

Don't worry about getting things wrong, just go ahead and post, and do the best you can. We're all still learning the quirks of this new board software.

Probably the most important thing would be:

1. Always provide credit when you are taking material from another site. This includes providing a link to the original article, noting the author's name (if you can find it), recognizing the publisher of the site (for example, the magazine that publishes it), and making it clear some how that these words are not your own, but the words of a different author. (The best way to do that is with the quote box, but I've been having issues myself getting that to work).

buffaloboy · Moderator

One tip on the quote box:

My main browser I use is IE 8, and for whatever reason, the quoting functionality doesn't work right with that browser.

When I use Firefox 3.5, all this stuff works fine, so at least for now, I'm using Firefox as my main browser for this site. Not sure how other browsers will do with things, so if anybody has experience with other ones, please let us know how they work out.

Sanders · Diamond

BB, yes, that very well could be the issue. I use FireFox for my blogging. I do find that it is important to have a blankline before QUOTE and make QUOTE the last action. Beyond that, if you are editing, you can only use "Back Space" and not select region and cut within the quoted text. I am able to add to the regions outside the quote box. It has taken a bit of figuring things out.

Attribution / Credit where it is due and deserved
I'll re-emphasize giving credit. i.e., attribution. If we function more as a PROMOTER of the source document, it is a better approach. Be sure to ENCOURAGE people to open the source document and look at the originating document. The REAL originating site deserves that credit.

Crediting a fellow blogger: Sometimes a fellow blogger here has done extensive work on a post, and you are taking content of that towards another blog. Be a good sibling/cousin, will you? Give the fellow sibling (using their Moniker id and not their name!) some credit in your post, and add a link to their original post that has more content. It makes for a better family.

Err on the side of giving credit, and view your post as a bit of a promotion of who you are publicizing. This is important. If you keep this in mind you will be careful to promote good articles and better writers.

Trimming the links
Links brought over often have extraneous "stuff" in the trailing end, some of which is unnecessary, some 'give out information' about the source and some are private information (e.g., session id/computer id).

Be sure to take out extraneous stuff that may give private information that you would rather not make public..

Bloggers need to keep a look out for each other and let the originating blogger know if they find such extra stuff in there.

Be a good fellow blogger. The community will love you for it. Karma is a good thing. (Or bad, if you are on its bad side. It can be really bad if you garner a lot of bad karma or a little of bad karma with the wrong behemoth). Thanks.

-- Edited by Sanders on Sunday 2nd of August 2009 04:15:12 AM

Alex · Diamond

I can't stay long, as I'm trying to make a Baker's Coconut cut-up cake (Fox Terrier), but I have found that if I hit "Enter" once, the quote feature seems to work. I'm talking about when you start from the top of the page - hit "Enter" once, then hit the quote symbols above, then put your quote in there. Hey, it worked for me. smile

Not that other people's ideas aren't better - I just haven't had a chance to try them yet!

To give you an idea of what we're working with here, I JUST figured out that, if you want brown coconut, you have to TOAST it, not DYE it! At least, I'm hoping that's the case...

-- Edited by Alex on Saturday 1st of August 2009 01:34:52 PM

Sanders · Diamond

Alex, yes, that is quite possible. It is often (but not always) when I attempt QUOTE at the very top first line that I have the issue. [Technically speaking that line ought to be for a repeat of the header, i.e., for attribution.]

The issue happens in the entire post. You will see as you use this "primer" that it helps to make QUOTE the last step. If it does not work, remove the entire quote, or clear the content all together, and re-start. I tend to copy and past the content into a temp file just to have it in-hand, just before starting QUOTE.. so I dont have to re-start from scratch if the QUOTE process fails..

-- Edited by Sanders on Sunday 2nd of August 2009 04:12:23 AM

Sanders · Diamond

Asked & Answered: How do I delete all those edit stamps?

Alex · Diamond

RE: Posting articles

mslas4hillary · Moderator

Sanders thanks this thread explains a lot.

Alex- I like the colors too. My favorite was the purple with the diagnol stripes.

Sanders · Diamond

Since the quote does not work well, use big bold " in the beginning and end of the quoted section.

That is " - bolded and font size changed to the highest.

That's what I have been doing lately.

Sanders · Diamond

USING RICH EDITOR

Go to your Profile -> Settings

and set

Advanced Editor -- YES

You will be able to copy and past with formats and links. Then, You just have to edit out the unwanted parts.