House Rules - How To

[cheryl]

Our specific house rules:

Whether this is your first time online or you're a seasoned visitor, we've spelled out the house rules for you here. Generally speaking, these rules simply require respect and good manners. Use common sense and you'll feel right at home.

1.) We live by words online, so when it comes to posted messages, e-mails, or private messages of any kind, we don't allow obscene, racist, or sexually explicit language. We reserve the right to remove postings that defame or insult anyone, as well as notes that are abusive or hateful.

2.) Our community's moderators can't possibly read every post made on this forum so we rely on our members to report posts that violate our House Rules or TOS. Please help us keep this forum a welcoming and comfortable place for all of our members by reporting () offensive posts.



3.) No solicitations or advertisements are allowed. These include advertisements for your business.

4.) You may not suggest or encourage illegal activity.

5.) You must respect the privacy of individuals. This means no posting of full names, phone numbers, addresses, Social Security numbers, or any other private information.

6.) We reserve the right to remove any postings, content, rep comments etc. (although we have no duty to do so).

7.) Use good judgment...

8.) The Terms of Service for this website can be found here: http://www.browncafe.com/tos.html


How To:

Many of the most common "how do I" questions about the forum (pictures and albums, reputation, profiles etc.) can be answered by reading the Frequently Asked Questions (FAQ.)





New Here?

Learn to use the Search Function. There are some questions that have already been asked and answered here many times. You may find just the answer that you're looking for without rehashing an exhausted topic. Have a new idea to add to an existing topic? Don't hesitate to post it...




You can use the quick search method by typing your term into the menu's text box or select advanced search to go to the advanced search page for a more specific search result.




The advanced search page gives you many more options. BTW - Tags are a very new feature... keyword search will search back much further into the posts from the past.

[cheryl]

I'm leaving this thread open for suggestions about content and anything else that would be helpful to add here. Please keep your posts informational and on topic or they will be removed.

[dannyboy]

Ont thing I might add to your wonderfully informative post, if I may.

Boys and girls, this is a private website, hosted by a most beautiful and gracious host. We are all guests here, even the mod team.

As such, please conduct ourselves (yes I included me) as guests should.

Now that the major sucking up out of the way, seriously folks, while we all might have active differences of opinion that can occur, most of us are adults. And if we all work together, we can make this site even better than it ever has been. Already, the Brown Cafe has gotten UPS to notice. Only the boss knows for sure how much.

But we all can make this place somewhere to come and learn, or to air our problems in a constructive way.

I for one am thankful it exists.

d

[toonertoo]

ditto

[helenofcalifornia]

It's the only place where you can find out what your fellow UPSer is doing in other parts of the country. I heart Cheryl!

[helenofcalifornia]

And if I was Pass You By, I would have a real heart in there.

[browniehound]

Cheryl,
Those are great graphics that supplied as an informative "help section" if you will, that I've ever read on any internet message center. When I was a newbee on this site, I didn't know how to read a thread and skip the posts I had already read. I finally figured out how to get to the first unread post, but it took my dumb mind a while to figure it out.

I was just wondering if there was anyway to save what you just posted and put it into a section like "browncafe help and rules". If thats what you already did, then I apologize for my ignorance. Thanks Cheryl!

And Danny, I just wanted to say what you posted are my sentiments too. You as moderators do an excellent job but obviously can't catch everything. I happy to be reading your posts again though,

Brownie

[dilligaf]

Originally Posted by browniehound

Cheryl,
.......I didn't know how to read a thread and skip the posts I had already read. I finally figured out how to get to the first unread post, but it took my dumb mind a while to figure it out.
Uhhhh, Brownie, you wanna help me out with that?

I was just wondering if there was anyway to save what you just posted and put it into a section like "browncafe help and rules". If thats what you already did, then I apologize for my ignorance. Thanks Cheryl!

I second that thought!!

And Danny, I just wanted to say what you posted are my sentiments too. You as moderators do an excellent job but obviously can't catch everything. I happy to be reading your posts again though,

Brownie

I third that thought!!!!!!

[Storm723]

Can someone please explain "reputation" works here.. I followed the directioins in the FAQ, but when I tried to give good rep points they ended up grey. Now those people just keep banging me with negative reps, and it is getting really ugly....despite the fact that it was an accident.
*Help me*....

[MonavieLeaker]

Green is good Red is bad..rep points are for when u agree/disagree with what some had said or if you find a post or a pic that person has made funny

[scratch]

Originally Posted by Storm723

Can someone please explain "reputation" works here.. I followed the directioins in the FAQ, but when I tried to give good rep points they ended up grey. Now those people just keep banging me with negative reps, and it is getting really ugly....despite the fact that it was an accident.
*Help me*....

You have to have 25 posts before you have built up enough "Reputation" where it shows on the board. You also can only give Rep to seven people in one day. And you need to give it out to different members, you can't give positive or negative rep to the same person over and over. One word of advice to everyone, what you do to someone else can come back and haunt you. If you are a new member, be careful about ticking off someone with a high rep score, they can put you in the red easy. This Rep System should be just for fun, don't try to take it too seriously.

[Storm723]

Monovie/ Scratch,

Thank you for your assistance, I appreciate it. I do have one more question. I see the little icon for adding to someones rep, when I click
on it a box opens and gives me the choice to:

1) agree with comment
2) disagree with comment

and then a comment box

Where do I go to give green, my experience has been that I agree with someone, make a comment and then it shows up grey in their rep area. What exactly am I doing wrong?

Again I appreciate your help!

[dilligaf]

Originally Posted by Storm723

Monovie/ Scratch,

Thank you for your assistance, I appreciate it. I do have one more question. I see the little icon for adding to someones rep, when I click
on it a box opens and gives me the choice to:

1) agree with comment
2) disagree with comment

and then a comment box

Where do I go to give green, my experience has been that I agree with someone, make a comment and then it shows up grey in their rep area. What exactly am I doing wrong?

Again I appreciate your help!

You aren't doing anything wrong. Agree gives green after you have earned enough reputation yourself. Disagree gives red.

[cheryl]

Gray means that you don't have a reputation score so your comments are neutral and have no effect on anyone's rep power. You can't raise or lower the rep power scores of the members that you commented on until you've made at least 25 posts.

I agree with Scratch, please don't take the rep power scores too seriously...

I opted to set my own rep power permanently to 10.

Here are the details about rep power:

The rep power displayed is the cumulative total of the reputation comments you have received plus the points earned by posting and the amount of time you've been a member here.

The strength of the reputation altering power of the reputation comments that you make to other members is based upon your own reputation. The higher your rep power the more your comments effect other member's scores.

You must have made at least 25 posts for your comments to alter another user's rep power, if you have made less than 25 posts your rep power comments will be gray (neutral.)

Your own rep power has to be higher than 5 for your reputation comments to effect another member's rep power.

For every 100 points of reputation you have you gain 1 point of reputation altering power.

For every 90 days you have been a member you gain 1 point of reputation altering power.

For every 10 posts you have made you gain 1 point of reputation altering power.

You must give reputation comments to 7 other members before your reputation altering power will effect the same member again.

Your reputation altering power can only effect the reputation scores of 7 different members a day.

[Storm723]

Cheryl That was fabulous!! Thank you and exactly what I was looking for!
I appreciate all of your assitance over the last couple of days!!

[dannyboy]

I opted to set my own rep power permanently to 10.

Maybe so, but Cheryl, you are a solid 10 in my book!

d

[browniehound]

Originally Posted by dilligaf

I third that thought!!!!!!

Dilli,
If you click a post it will go to the beginning of the thread. This is fine if you haven't read any of the posts in the thread. But, let's say one day you read all the posts and then return 5 days later and click on the same thread. You will go to the top of the thread unless you click the little arrow that in next to the title of the post. When you do this, it takes you to the first post that you haven't read yet.

Is this what you were asking me Dilli?

[dilligaf]

Originally Posted by browniehound

Dilli,
If you click a post it will go to the beginning of the thread. This is fine if you haven't read any of the posts in the thread. But, let's say one day you read all the posts and then return 5 days later and click on the same thread. You will go to the top of the thread unless you click the little arrow that in next to the title of the post. When you do this, it takes you to the first post that you haven't read yet.

Is this what you were asking me Dilli?

Yes Brownie..... That's what I was asking. Thanks and Cheryl posted a how-to on the other sticky.. D

[browniehound]

Dilli,
I'm glad I could help. It makes it so much easier to be able to jump to your unread posts. I happy that I could help you. If you have any other question or need assitance, please just private message me and I will help you out.

In the mean time, enjoy BC,

Brownie