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Tonight I’m working on the “basics of the forum” topic as suggested by Geekdom. The beginnings of it are here. Note that I have the thread closed to n
[See the full post at: Working on “the basics of the forum” instruction]
Susan Bradley Patch Lady/Prudent patcher
To insert an image into a topic, all you have to do it have an image stored on your computer.
It’s also possible to insert images into a post “without” having them stored on your PC.
#1. You can directly insert an image into your post by simply copying/pasting the “link” to the image like this.
Notes:
• The link must end in .bmp, .gif, .jpg, or .png and the extension must be in lowercase or the forum S/W won’t accept it as an “image” (it’ll show up as a link instead.)
• If the image is too large (wider than 640px), once you’ve inserted into your reply, simple click on it, select edit (the pencil icon), and “shrink” it to a more acceptable display size.
#2. If the image “link” doesn’t meet the above extension requirements, you can use the bbcode img tag to insert it like this.
Note: it’s not possible to set the display size if you use the img tag (i.e. it will display in your post at full resolution.)
Note: the image must be on a secure site (https), not on your computer.
Note: the image must be on a secure site (https), not on your computer.
Oops, my bad.
Thanks for catching that!
BTW, just tried it out (without actually “submitting” the post), and both of those methods will allow anonymous/guest posters to “insert” images.
What is the acceptable response to a post in which one is asked to defend a position (or statement) one has not taken (nor made), without being trashed for argumentative behavior/posting?
That is to say, a string of replies that has devolved into a discussion about two different coins under the apparent assumption, by one party, that it is about two sides of the same coin. Is it argumentative to explain, “That is neither what I said nor what I meant”?
If responses are flat-out wrong — not opinions, facts — facts need to be presented. There really is no agree-to-disagree.
Stating the “earth is flat” invites rebuttal with fact and documentation.
Misquoting someone is misrepresentation and needs correction.
There are times and circumstances that each poster has to understand that everyone has their view of “facts” and thus what you are expressing is influenced by your personal experience. I don’t mind this sort of conversations. What I will not tolerate is when it gets personal.
I grew up in a generation that valued a point/counterpoint view when people could rationally discuss both sides (Jane Curtain and Dan Akroyd notwithstanding) and I’ve always learned a lot lurking on a forum when two smart people explain their position.
At the same time we all have to understand that we live in a world where – even here – we sometimes have anon posters that will not be swayed and sometimes you have to be the adult in the room and walk away. You can’t convince someone that will not be convinced no matter what you post.
Case in point, I will always have an irrational hatred/fear/distrust of Broadcom network cards used in HyperV servers and will immediately disable any and all settings regarding RSS/TOE/VMQ and any other settings that sound like it will speed up network traffic that when I’ve used it in the past gave me horrible experiences. I’m sure folks in datacenters love these settings. I irrationally hate them and will not be convinced otherwise. But I’ll still love to read a factual, non personal discussion even though I will never enable those settings EVER on a server under my control.
Susan Bradley Patch Lady/Prudent patcher
Ultimately the determination if someone is – or is not – argumentative is my call. If I feel someone is no longer being reasonable I will remove the post, consider banning the poster by account and/or by IP. Yes I realize that in this day and age of VPN this may be a bit of a game, I still want to cultivate a forum that can respectfully agree to disagree where appropriate without getting snippy, rude or personal. When the posts do get snippy, rude and/or personal they WILL be removed.
Susan Bradley Patch Lady/Prudent patcher
Quote Part of a Post …. hi-light desired and Clk Quote Tab?
Multi-Quotes in a Post…. In separate Browser Tabs accumulate Quote Results of desired posts and Paste Each to Reply space … is all I know
Reply Tab keeps post AT or Near That post – Regular post space or Quote puts it at Discussion End, I think. In lengthy discussions Good info is sometimes missed when a helpful post goes back to an area people have visited and don’t return to.
Use of — #2452809
Size or pixel dimension limits on Attachments
W10 Pro 22H2 / Hm-Stdnt Ofce '16 C2R / Macrium Pd vX / GP=2 + FtrU=Semi-Annual + Feature Defer = 1 + QU = 0
Susan,
As far as the Resolved button issue a simple instruction to edit the OP and add [RESOLVED] to the end should do the trick w/o security problems.
Anonymous can’t thank for a comment
No, but they can post a thanks – as long as it contains more than just “thanks”.
There have to be some perks for registering. 
cheers, Paul
Clearly I need Roberta. Will fix.
Susan Bradley Patch Lady/Prudent patcher
<span style=”color: #008000;”>Step five</span> When you are in the visual editor there are certain options in the menu bar. On the far
leftright is an icon that is the “toolbar toggle”.
The set of instructions is very helpful – I wish I had had them at hand more than a year ago, when I joined — I learned then by trial and error by using the Testing Forum a lot. Information about using the edit tabs is very helpful. I had not known about the 2nd line until now! [You will notice that I have practiced a couple of the edit tabs in the quote above!]
Post edit: Using the ‘color’ icon doesn’t produce in the actual post the same thing that I see under the Visual Tab. Here is what I see under the Visual tab. The font is green and there is no html code. 
Here is what I see under the Text tab. The font is not green and there is html code
The actual post displays the html code for the green font, not the green font. I expected to see the green font, and not the code for the font.
I also tried changing the color of a word in the quote from Susan and received the same result as you (I later edited the post removing the html code).
Win 11 home - 24H2
Attitude is a choice...Choose wisely
OK. Here is a <span style=”color: #008000;”>word</span> I have typed. Let’s see if the post has green, bold font for ‘word’
Here is how it looks under the Visual tab. ‘word’ is in green font. 
Here is how it looks under the Text tab. ‘word’ is surrounded by html code. 
I expected the post to display like it does under the Visual tab. But, it displays like it does under the Text tab.
A big thank you to Geekdom for the suggestion and Susan for all the work. This will be a huge help for Askwoody forum users (myself included).
Win 11 home - 24H2
Attitude is a choice...Choose wisely
In the post you want to link:
1. Right click on the post number in the upper right and choose “Copy link”
In the post you are submitting:
2. Type in the post number “#2453146” (or whatever it is)
3. Highlight the typed in “#2453146”
4, Click on the chain symbol in the menu, then the gear in the popup
5. Paste the Link you copied in step 1. in the URL box. The post number you typed/highlighted will be in the second box. If you want it to open in a separate window, check the box “Open link in a new tab”
6. Click on “Add Link”
This is a regular link:
https://www.askwoody.com/forums/topic/june-updates-are-out/#post-2453445
This is a ‘pretty’ link:
They both go to the same place. The ‘pretty’ link will open it in a new tab.
@geekdom, I copied your post and pasted it into Text, not Visual. This is the result.
@geekdom, this is below the postbox for my account.
You can use BBCodes to format your content.
Here is my postbox information:
You can use BBCodes to format your content.
When I post:
BBcode presents as expected.
HTML code from hieroglyphs may or may not present as expected.
There’s limited HTML access for those of us that don’t have “moderator” accounts (with unrestricted HTML content posting). I’m not a moderator, nor do I have unrestricted content HTML posting. Shown below is my postbox.
If you use the Text toggle, there will be buttons across the top of the postbox. Most of these generate HTML and they produce the desired effect. For example, “b” produces bold text.
test
These commands are not forgiving. You can botch your posts and possibly more if you’re not careful. Remember to close your tags.
Some of these buttons will match the Visual hieroglyphs (and the corresponding hieroglyph will work).
None of this is working for me. I switched to edge as PM does have problems sometimes. I get some posts disappeared and some like this REALLY annoying when one is troubleshooting!
And BTW the visual tab never appears in Pale Moon.
And another BTW I remember the advisement to NOT ever use the ‘visual’ tab ???
When I follow this link, which has a ‘-2‘ in it, the topic title does not have a ‘-2‘ in it. Why?
Is this another quirk – something like the ‘by’ quirk?
That was an artifact of it seeming to be lost to the bit bucket perhaps. I o not specifically recall. My apologies for the dup.
Step three: Create a post
Let users know that if they want to see replies to their newly created post, they should click the ‘Subscribe’ button in the header at the top of the topic page (which will say ‘Unsubscribe’ after subscribing). 
That’s normally accomplished by checking Notify me of follow-up replies via email when posting, which obviates the need for a separate subscribe action.
Note I can put in a plug in that automatically subscribes you to a post when you post something.
I would welcome that, for sure!
Per rules of CANSPAM I can’t auto check. (sorry) You have to opt in each time.
Susan Bradley Patch Lady/Prudent patcher
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