Lesson 2

Photobucket.com is the best place, IMHO to host your pics and it's easy to post them here. It takes a while to find your way around, and there are some easy ways to upload pics from the computer to photobucket. Depending on how you upload them, you don't even need to resize them.

This link may help you out Photobucket tutorials

If you need help, send Bass of New England a PM. He was great at helping me out.

Check it out.

 

I'm not either, exactly, but I want to know how to do it.

For example, just to the left there, under my login name, it says "Gold Member." Somewhere on the S2KI server, there's a file -- what I was calling my initialization file -- that says to put "Gold Member" into that place on the page when I put up a post. If I could find that file, I could change it to say something like "Gourmet Chef." (Indeed, someone does this, perhaps the computer system itself, to distinguish guests from members from gold members from community organizers, etc.) Not so much here at S2KI, but on other sites I've seen all sorts of amusing (mostly) things wind up there -- and some sites even let you specify what to put there.

By analogy, there are various other things in that file that would be fun to play with. However, I expect that only trusted folks have access to the initialization files, because there are undoubtedly some identifiers in there that have some level of system sensitivity. For example, you're identified as a CO there. Maybe that identification in the initialization file is what gives you access to the various forums that the rest of us mortals don't have access to. (Or, maybe not -- maybe that access is someplace else.)

Mostly, I'm just curious. I guess I should get a vBulletin software manual (that's the software behind lots of other sites, and this one looks similar). HPH

 

I learned how to direct Google to list search hits on only a single site (see the sticky in the S2000 Talk forum). I never knew that before.

Doc, that business about what it says above the stars is only available to administrators to change. You can ask them for something special if you like. COs and Moderators can "nominate" people for special designations...

 

Show off!

j/k - How you doin' Chaz? How's things in the noob forum?

 

Great, Mike. Thanks! I've got that and S2000 Talk these days. Mostly, I'm spending time in my regional forum though.

 

Yeah, that's how Val got to be a Diamond Member. Let me see what special designation I want...

 

I suggest that all retired CO's who have served honorably should be permitted to name their own title (within reason, of course)

Rob, Chaz, MsP, Legal Bill all richly deserve that privilege

 

OK, is this lesson three? I've lost count.

Quoting more than one person. Like many things on the computer there are probably ten ways to do this. Dr. C helped me out, I'll try to explain it here. If someone knows an easier way, chime in. I'm not that good at explaining things, though I see someone using more smiley things.

1. Copy and pasting is involved in quoting more than one person.

Let's say you want to quote me.

You start out by typing quote=Lainey8484 put a [ in the front of the word quote and a ] at the end of the name of the person you are quoting. Copy and paste what you want to quote, finish with /quote with the brackets around it, that ends the quote.

For the second person, I want to quote Chazmo, so you type the same thing again.

quote=Chazmo copy and paste /quote (don't forget the brackets)

Example {quote=chazmo} copy paste {/quote} ends the quote. The other brackets are the ones you need to use.

Finished product below

you have to be sure to use the opening and closing [ ] in the beginning and close it with the /quote If you don't use the brackets and the slash as needed, it won't work.

Any questions?

 

More on quotes...

"Nested" quotes don't, in my experience, always come out right when you copy/paste from other posts in a given thread. But they're easy to create manually, simply by positioning the opening/closing commands carefully.

Here's an example - and, in the following code, I'm using curly {} brackets for the square [] ones that will produce the finished product. I'm also using separate lines to distinguish things more carefully in the code (unfortunately, indentation doesn't work)

{quote=personA}In Person A's post, Person B said
{quote=personB}something really stupid in response to
{/quote}

{quote=personC}Person C's original post reproduced here that was stimulated by something that
{quote=personD} Person D said in another thread
{/quote}
{/quote}
{/quote}

Note that the number of /quote commands has to equal the number of quote commands, and where they're positioned determines the nesting.

Reproducing that exact block with [] instead of {} everywhere gives this:

Now let's see how nutty we can get out there! HPH

Edit to add new smileys to show positioning.

 

For Dr. C.

Nesting quotes, never thought of those, and now