Forum help: What is Reputation, PM's, and so on.

Donovan

Donovan

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I have had a few PM's (private messages) asking what certain things on the board are used for. Because there are many things you can do and lots of places to navigate to, I will just try and explain some of them.


ADD TO [POSTER'S NAME]'S REPUTATION: This is what you give someone when their post is really something special. Above the post on the right side is a small set of weighing scales. When you click these you get a new screen asking you to :

What do you think of [POSTER's NAME]'s post?
O I approve
O I disapprove
Your comments on :

You simply click on the appropriate choice and then leave a comment if you wish. But it is not necessary. Then hit the button that says "Add to Reputation." You have now given your approval for liking a post or you disapproval for not liking a post. I think most of us avoid giving others disapproving reputation unless it is something unforgivable...but these are your choices. I personally never give anyone disapproving reputation, because I feel everyone has a right to speak their opinion regardless.

Below the Poster's information in the upper right hand corner of the post is a little green box. As you get more positive The more boxes you see, the more "famous" you get. You can view the last 5 people who gave you reputation by clicking on the "UserCP" menu option on the top of most board pages.

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REPORT BAD POST: This is used when you feel someone is not really participating and just posting stuff not fit for our board. Above the post on the right side is a small red and white triangle with an "!" in it. When you click this you get a new screen asking you to leave a:

Message:

Note: This is ONLY to be used to report spam, advertising messages, and problematic (harassment, fighting, or rude) posts.

Then you simply hit the "Send Report" button to submit it. The only time I've had to use this is when someone wants to start a new discussion board on pool and posts in ours, trying to persuade people out of here. Yeah, like that is going to happen. One easy giveaway is that they usually only have less than 10 posts to their name.

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VIEW SINGLE POST: All this really does is allow you to open a new window with that post only in it. Above the post on the right side is the Post Number (#1). When you click it you will get your new window.

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MEMBER PROFILE: There are a few ways to view a member's profile, this is just a couple of them. You may either click on their avatar (their picture beside their name) or by clicking their name at the top of the post and selecting "View Public Profile". You can also look someone up by clicking on the "Members List" menu option on the top of most board pages. Enjoy the info!

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SEND A PRIVATE MESSAGE: There are a few ways to send a member a private message, this is one of them. You click on their name at the top of the post and selecting "Send a private message to [POSTER's NAME]". You should be able to figure it out from there.

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VIEW YOUR PRIVATE MESSAGES: In the top right corner of most of the board's pages you will see your name and below that you can click on "Private Messages". There is quite a bit here so play with it until you get the hang of it.

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WEI TABLE: Is a way we can see what someone is describing on a virtual pool table. You will see code that looks like this:

START(%Pi9O7%eB4a4)END

WEI Table and Posting Instructions.

Here is the site the has WEI Table:
http://endeavor.med.nyu.edu/~wei/pool/pooltable2.html

TO SEE WHAT THE CODE SHOWS ON THE WEI TABLE:
From the post: Copy the entire section from the "S" in START to the "D" in END.
Then click the "paste" button in the bottom right corner of the WEI Table.
Now you will probably have to hit OK a couple of time depending on your settings.

TO POST YOUR CODE FROM YOUR WEI TABLE SET-UP:
From the WEI Table: After moving the items where you want them, click the "copy" button in the bottom right corner.
Now just put paste the code in your post.

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I hope this was helpful!
 
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Donovan said:
I have had a few PM's (private messages) asking what certain things on the board are used for. Because there are many things you can do and lots of places to navigate to, I will just try and explain some of them.
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You may become the first poster to reach 3 bars with posts like that:p

Always good to have some people who will go the extra yard, explain things to newer members, spend a couple of minutes make a wei diagram or better still attach an image of it to save others time.

Those efforts usually come back multiplied in terms of building friendships and improving overall communication here....which is what it's all about...or should be about.:D
 
Donovan,

Thank you for taking the time to show all the newbies (including myself!) how to do the various tasks that enrich our online experience. I wish this had been around when I first started. 2 thumbs way way (Wei, Wei :p ) up! And a scale tipper to you!

Linda
 
A more detailed explanantion of the WEI Table

I felt the need to quote this in this thread too, because it has great detail on how to work the WEI TABLE. Thanks Linda!

rackmsuckr said:
Ha, good thing I just did this tutorial for another AZB'er. He also did not know how to copy and paste, so forgive the extra stuff.

Wei table help:

http://endeavor.med.nyu.edu/~wei/pool/pooltable2.html

Here is the link to the Wei table. If you don't see it when you click on the link, it requires a Macromedia Shockwave plug-in.

Size the corner of your wei table window to half your screen by moving your cursor over the corner border of your window until the cursor turns into an arrow. Hold the left mouse down and drag your mouse in or outward until you get it the size you want and then release. Do the same for the AZB forum screen you want so that they are lined up side by side. You can move the whole window over by clicking on the title bar, hold the left mouse down and drag your mouse to wherever you want it to go.

If both pages want to open up in the same window, then you need to go to the Tools menu/Internet options/. Go to the Advanced tab and make sure 'reuse windows for launching shortcuts' is UNCHECKED. Hit ok and it will take you out of there and it will remember what you told it to do.

OK, now you should have 2 open windows side by side on your screen. Keep in mind that once you click on one window, it makes that one active, so if you leave your screen with the highlighted stuff (Call it window A) to go read the directions from another window, it will unhighlight as soon as you go back and click anywhere INSIDE the window. So to select window A without losing the highlighting, click on the title bar to select it and that makes it active again. The reason I am telling you this is to save you time, you would eventually figure it out anyway. Also, it's because you are going to be going back and forth several times at first until you get the hang of it, and then you will wonder what happened to your highlighting.

Cutting, copying and pasting are all basic Windows functions. There is an invisible clipboard that you can tack stuff to and it will remember what you stuck up there until you need it again. It is how you move large chunks of information around. Copying and cutting is basically the same thing except cutting deletes editable words, and then you can use that section somewhere else. Copying makes a copy of it and leaves the original words intact. Cutting usually only works on what you have typed, not after you have received a message from someone else, because their document is not editable. You can COPY virtually any text from any website, thread, or document into your own thread, website or document. Play around with both functions, you can't hurt anything.

Here is a great practice page with the fundamentals: http://www.webmasternow.com/copyandpaste.html

Here is another tutorial. Notice I am copying and pasting the website address into this email:
http://www.worldstart.com/tips/shared/copypaste.htm

OK, back to the Wei table. Highlight the text in the forum message, including the words START and End. Start highlighting at the word Start and finish at the word End. Now copy it by right clicking and selecting Copy. That data is now on your invisible clipboard.

Go to the Wei table. Underneath the table are 2 buttons, copy and paste. You hit the PASTE button to paste the data from the clipboard to the wei table. 2 prompts will come up, just keep hitting ok and voila, the shot is now on the Wei table. You can do that as many times as you want.

Now, to diagram a shot that you want to demonstrate, you take all the balls off the table except for the ones you want to use. To move balls and arrows, just click and drag them by holding down the left mouse button as you move them. The stripes' numbers hang below the ball, so make sure you are really getting a stripe when you need one. You can use the arrows to indicate CB path or ball path (a couple of them are jointed arrows so that you can bend them or turn them at right angles using the same arrow) and use the numbers to indicate pockets, positions, or landing positions. You can also indicate on the cueball where you strike the cueball. Just move the black dot around to where you want, to indicate english, etc. Once you have your shot set up exactly the way you want it, push the COPY button and that is now on your clipboard. (You will lose the prior information that was on the clipboard.)

Go back to the AZB forum, write your message and put the cursor where you want the string to start, right click and select PASTE, and voila, you have pasted the string into your message. So now anyone can copy what you pasted and paste it into their Wei table and see what shot you diagrammed.

Hope this is all clear. Print it out and keep it. Who knows, someday you may be asked how to copy and paste or use the Wei table, and then you can just copy and paste this part of the email! Lol.
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Donovan the Mensa teacher

Donovan i really enjoy your posts.....you could be a teacher of Mensa students ........your wealth of knowledge about everything is amazing........keep up the good work...:)
 
Smorgass Bored said:
Oops, I forgot to mention the 'prompt'. When I try to enter this name on my ignore list I keep getting a prompt that says,"this person is a Moderator and cannot be ignored." What's up with that?
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LOL, No one is ever allowed to ignore Mr. Wilson. *JK*

Actually, Moderators can not be ignored, because if they need to send a message to you for board managment purposes, they have to be able to get it through. As far as I know everyone else is game.
 
Donovan said:
LOL, No one is ever allowed to ignore Mr. Wilson. *JK*

Actually, Moderators can not be ignored, because if they need to send a message to you for board managment purposes, they have to be able to get it through. As far as I know everyone else is game.
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Not sure it was Mr. Wilson he wanted to ignore??? :rolleyes:
 
rackmsuckr said:
Not sure it was Mr. Wilson he wanted to ignore??? :rolleyes:
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I don't have a clue who he was trying to ignore, I just thought I would tease Mr. Wilson a little. :D
 
This should be a sticky

Donovan said:
I have had a few PM's (private messages) asking what certain things on the board are used for. Because there are many things you can do and lots of places to navigate to, I will just try and explain some of them.


ADD TO [POSTER'S NAME]'S REPUTATION: This is what you give someone when their post is really something special. Above the post on the right side is a small set of weighing scales. When you click these you get a new screen asking you to :

What do you think of [POSTER's NAME]'s post?
O I approve
O I disapprove
Your comments on :

You simply click on the appropriate choice and then leave a comment if you wish. But it is not necessary. Then hit the button that says "Add to Reputation." You have now given your approval for liking a post or you disapproval for not liking a post. I think most of us avoid giving others disapproving reputation unless it is something unforgivable...but these are your choices. I personally never give anyone disapproving reputation, because I feel everyone has a right to speak their opinion regardless.

Below the Poster's information in the upper right hand corner of the post is a little green box. As you get more positive The more boxes you see, the more "famous" you get. You can view the last 5 people who gave you reputation by clicking on the "UserCP" menu option on the top of most board pages.

-----

REPORT BAD POST: This is used when you feel someone is not really participating and just posting stuff not fit for our board. Above the post on the right side is a small red and white triangle with an "!" in it. When you click this you get a new screen asking you to leave a:

Message:

Note: This is ONLY to be used to report spam, advertising messages, and problematic (harassment, fighting, or rude) posts.

Then you simply hit the "Send Report" button to submit it. The only time I've had to use this is when someone wants to start a new discussion board on pool and posts in ours, trying to persuade people out of here. Yeah, like that is going to happen. One easy giveaway is that they usually only have less than 10 posts to their name.

-----

VIEW SINGLE POST: All this really does is allow you to open a new window with that post only in it. Above the post on the right side is the Post Number (#1). When you click it you will get your new window.

-----

MEMBER PROFILE: There are a few ways to view a member's profile, this is just a couple of them. You may either click on their avatar (their picture beside their name) or by clicking their name at the top of the post and selecting "View Public Profile". You can also look someone up by clicking on the "Members List" menu option on the top of most board pages. Enjoy the info!

-----

SEND A PRIVATE MESSAGE: There are a few ways to send a member a private message, this is one of them. You click on their name at the top of the post and selecting "Send a private message to [POSTER's NAME]". You should be able to figure it out from there.

-----

VIEW YOUR PRIVATE MESSAGES: In the top right corner of most of the board's pages you will see your name and below that you can click on "Private Messages". There is quite a bit here so play with it until you get the hang of it.

-----

WEI TABLE: Is a way we can see what someone is describing on a virtual pool table. You will see code that looks like this:

START(%Pi9O7%eB4a4)END

WEI Table and Posting Instructions.

Here is the site the has WEI Table:
http://endeavor.med.nyu.edu/~wei/pool/pooltable2.html

TO SEE WHAT THE CODE SHOWS ON THE WEI TABLE:
From the post: Copy the entire section from the "S" in START to the "D" in END.
Then click the "paste" button in the bottom right corner of the WEI Table.
Now you will probably have to hit OK a couple of time depending on your settings.

TO POST YOUR CODE FROM YOUR WEI TABLE SET-UP:
From the WEI Table: After moving the items where you want them, click the "copy" button in the bottom right corner.
Now just put paste the code in your post.

-----

I hope this was helpful!
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This should be a sticky, it's one of the most informative posts I have read in awhile.
 
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