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Threads and navigating - 12/12/2008 1:35:59 PM
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sowaseed
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At the risk of sounding ignorant, what is a thread? I am not computer savvy and I am having some difficulty figuring this website out.
I also am receiving a lot of emails showing the new posts and I don't mind, it is that when I pull up the email and hit the link, it takes me to the website as a guest and I have to sign in again and again. Is there a way to avoid this? Thank you for your help.
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RE: Threads and navigating - 12/12/2008 11:53:16 PM
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OneJohn410
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Welcome Sowaseed,
The threads mentioned are inside forums...
This one, if you view it from your first asking, you see two buttons postreply and fastreply, and then the words all forums, feedback & help, feedback & information, and then the subject line of your OP, which becomes the title of the thread you've started.
Around in this area somewhere is a thread of a dictionary of abbreviations commonly used and other terms. I don't know if it has been permanently stuck at the top of a forum or not.
So I like to think that you've posted in the feedback and help thread, in the feedback and info 'sub-thread' or call it a thread inside another thread.
It's the forum titles and such that help people not post about their pet cat in where others are talking theology... though the post could somehow be appropriate anyway.
This is a good place to post for help. The mods are good though few. The mods (that's moderators) are wise.
Also, if your thread takes on the appearance MOVED: Such and So, that means a mod has helped keep it alive and maybe get it replied to. But that's nicely explained when you see it.
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RE: Threads and navigating - 12/13/2008 11:21:53 AM
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ta_mosquito
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ta_mosquito's forums glossary:
Portal: The site you're on; the "window" through which you're looking at the forums. Others have explained this one.  Each of the different web sites you're getting in your email are different portals to the forums. You can log in at any of them; it's your choice. But if you jump from one to another, you do have to log in at each portal.
Forum: The whole shabang. Sometimes the different folders (such as Feedback & Information, He Says, She Says, Marriage, etc.) are called "forum" as well. I call them "folders."
Thread: Each conversation within a folder. This thread is titled, "Threads and navigating."
Post: Each person's individual contribution to the thread. You're currently reading my post.
OP: Either "Original Post" which is the first post in a thread, introducing the thread topic, OR "Original Poster" referring to the person that started the thread. You're the OP of this thread. Your first post is also the OP of this thread. 
Now, about the email notifications and the different portals: What I do is copy everything in the link given in the email after the ".com" part - for example, I copy the bolded part of this:
http://forums.crosswalk.com/m_4042911/mpage_1/tm.htm#4043912
- and when I'm on a page of the portal I am logged in to, I paste that part after the .com part of the web address - so, if I'm logged in and have
http://faithcommmunitynetwork.com/default.aspx
in my address bar, I get rid of the /default.aspx part and paste in that part I copied above, so it's now
http://faithcommmunitynetwork.com/m_4042911/mpage_1/tm.htm#4043912
When I do that, it goes to the post using the portal I'm logged in on.
< Message edited by ta_mosquito -- 12/13/2008 11:29:16 AM >
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RE: Threads and navigating - 12/13/2008 3:20:24 PM
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sowaseed
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Thank you all for your help! I really appreciate it.
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