The Hitchhiker's Guide to CS - The Unofficial New User's Guide & List of FAQ

Sheila

I'm a and appreciate all the advice!

Sheila Gildersleeve

I need to change my name on my profle, can any help me with it?

MissChef

Your User Name? I don't think we can!? Not sure though, that would be an Ann or Kitchen Guy question!

janetupnorth

If you need to change your user name, you have to contact Admin Greg or DebPC our admins in order to do that.

For your profile, you can make what signature you want.

babywings76

Can someone add on here instructions on how to insert links if you want to direct someone to another thread or to a file that already exists in the files section? Thanks! I can't seem to figure it out right.

chefann

To attach a link to a file, find the file. Right-click the file name, and select "Copy link location" from the pop-up menu. Paste that (ctrl-V, or edit>paste) into the post where you would like the link to appear.

You can do the same for a thread. Open the thread you want someone to see in another browser window or tab. Select the entire address in the address bar and copy it (ctrl-c or edit>copy), then paste it into the thread where you want someone to see it.

babywings76

Thanks Ann!

kcjodih

Special Features

**Updated as of Feb 13/09

How do I get a star under my name? Keep posting! The stars are rewards for posting. You get an outline, or "stripper" star at 1,000 posts, I think you get a yellow star at 3,000, pink at 4,000 and blue at 7,000. There is a multi-color star awarded at 10,000 posts.

candiejayne

Jodi, thanks for trying to figure it out! I was wondering what the new levels were!

MissChef

I believe it's 2500 posts!

kcjodih

Huh? After all my work it's not even an even 3000??? I checked each '1000' level NOT by the 500's! Man! Okay folks...

The stars are rewards for posting. You get an outline, or "stripper" star at 1,000 posts, I think you get a yellow star at 2,500, pink at 4,000 and blue at 7,000. There is a multi-color star awarded at 10,000 posts.

Thanks Cat!

The_Kitchen_Guy

A couple of years ago, the board was starting to get cluttered up with jokes. Everyone who got a new joke via email was posting them as a new thread and it made it difficult to filter through the jokes in order to find the threads of interest.

We started a joke thread to take care of that, it's called The Official Continuing Discussion of American Humor.

Think before posting. If you can't tell it at church, it might not be appropriate for this forum. That said, we're all adults here and a little bit of adult humor among friends is fine. Still, people who post such jokes will usually preface the joke with an ADULT CONTENT warning, that way, those who aren't interested can skip it, like this one or this one.

Oh, you might want to search the thread before you post your joke, someone might have already posted it there.

Saturday Gourmet

I apologize beforehand if this was covered in the manual. It's late, I'm tired, and am just getting over swine flu. Anywho....

How do you get multiple quotes in your posts? I hit that multiple quotes button, but nothing.

Appreciate the help.

raebates

Right beside the "Quote button is a button that looks like a piece of paper with quotation marks on it. That's the multi-quote button. Click that for any quotes you want included. Click the "Quote button for the final quote.

Make sense?

The_Kitchen_Guy

Use this one for the first (second, third, fourth, etc.) quote like this one:

Then use the Quote button for the last quote you want to use:
Then just add your text. The Mulitple Quote Button adds the quotes to a clipboard but does nothing with them until you press the Quote button and everything you selected will appear in your new post dialog.

Good question!

nikked

Wow! I've been doing that one the hard way! Copying and pasting, and manually putting the "quote" on...thanks for that info!!! Just goes to show me that I can always learn something new!

Saturday Gourmet

OMG!! Thank you! I was hitting the multi-quote button, but didn't know to hit the "Quote" button when I was on the last one.

Thanks Rae and KG! Ya'll are the best.


I was about to start doing the same thing. I had been just quoting each one and I'd have like 4 different posts. Would hate to be labled a "post slut". LOL...hmmmmm, that would get me my stripper star sooner...MWWWAAAHAHAHAH! J/K

Thanks again!

babywings76

Thanks so much for asking this. I've tried several times in the past, but didn't ever figure it out. Now it makes sense!

PamperedMom07

OMG I'm loving this, I just joined the other day and another member informed me about this thread. Thank you so much for sharing such wonderful information and funny humor at the bottom of every post. I will continue reading tomorrow!

~Heather