Dec 29, 2013 01:28 PM
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A high level overview of how the board works
There are a few different flows for finding posts:
- Drill down from home screen (this is always available by clicking on "KU Buckets" on the header bar) to a bucket, and find the postings listed in order of (a) those that are pinned first and (b) by what was replied to last
- Click "Recent" on the header bar, which shows the threads in order of their most recent activity. This shows postings from all buckets, unlike the previous method, which shows only those specific to a bucket
- Click on "Unread" on the header bar (when logged in). This is a nice feature of the board, which tracks those posts you have not read for you and shows a number here for the number of new posts you have not yet read. This will take you directly to those posts. This will ignore which bucket the posts come from.
- Click on the bell (notification) icon on the header (when logged in), which shows you the most recent replies to threads you have written, as well as any time someone uses your name in an @ . This is useful because it helps you keep track of discussions you're having across all threads.
- Click on a user's name or look them up through users and then click on their list of posts, if you're trying to read their stuff.
As for how one posts:
- the board uses markdown syntax. you can read up by clicking here ↗
- use @ to address people to drive discussions. Clicking the reply button on someone's post will automatically start your post with @ and their name.
- links in markdown syntax are done by using brackets around your desired text, and parenthesis around the link immediately after. Here's a link to the markdown explanation. ↗. Also, in the reply window, you can highlight text you want to make into a link, then click the icon with two circles, and then immediately paste the url to where you want the link to go.
- links to youtube videos will embed the video in the post.
- to embed an image in your post, do the same as a link except precede it with a !. Here's a link to the markdown explanation. ↗
- to quote someone, put a > before the paragraph you want quoted. You can also grab someone's post to quote by clicking the quote icon next to the reply button on their post.
- pound character is used for headers (i.e. larger text sizes). Note if you start a line with pound, it will do this. For more info on headers, here's the markdown lnk. ↗
- here's a list of emoticons that work with the board.
- here is a sandbox post if you want a post you can experiment with:
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Our One Rule
Finally, our only house rule is "don't be a jerk".
