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posted by FODU @ 5/31/2006 12:29:00 AM
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Moving to New Discussion Board
1. Accessing the new board
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3. Posting comments
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Next step is to post your comment. We will assume you want to post a comment under the “General topics” section of the board. Click on "General topics" link displayed on the screen. Then, click on "General topics" link a second time. Next, you will see all the existing comments under that topic. To post a comment of your own, click on the "Add Reply" command. This will open up a text box where you will type in your comment. After you finish typing your comment, navigate to the bottom of the text box. You will see an "Add Reply" button. Click on it, and your comment will be posted. Your comment will appear as the last comment under the selected topic. When there are multiple pages of comments under a topic, your comment will be added as the last comment on the last page.
4. Editing comments
After posting a comment, if you discover you need to make revisions to it, you will need to locate your comment and click on the Edit command. The Edit command is located on the top right of each comment. You may only edit your own comments. After you click on the Edit command, your comment will be displayed in a text box and you will be able to revise it. When your revisions are done, go to the bottom of the text box, and you will see a "Post modified reply" button. Click on it to post the revised comment.
5. Customizing your profile
To customize your member profile (for example, to hide your email address and other such functions) click on My Controls. Then, review and where necessary revise the options available under Personal Profile and Options sections.
At this point, you will be ready to start posting comments on the new board.
Here are some functions you may want to be familiar with:
To send a private message (PM) to another board member, locate a message posted by that member. On the bottom of each comment you will see a PM command. Click on it and send a message. An email option is also available but that is the same as sending an email to someone (i.e. it will go to the regular email box of that member). The PMs go to the inbox of each member on the board. To read PM’s coming into your inbox, click on the Inbox command next to My Controls.
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Moderator
November 1, 2006
DR BRODHEAD, we're waiting.
Unfortunately you will have to wait for a long time. Brodhead is determined to be the very last one to exonerate these kids, if at all. I bet, today is a bad for him. What a president?
This may sound like a trite, very non-intellectual comment, but I am so outraged by the Durham DA's continuing persecution of those three overwhelming innocent students, that I would choose to pardon Saddam Hussein from the gallows if his replacement in the noose would be this despicable filth Nifong.
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