How to Use This Site

New to the Poopsheet Foundation? This handy user’s guide will help you navigate around the site and use all the tools we have to communicate here within our community. If you have any questions, please either e-mail us, send a message through the site or post in the forums and we’ll respond directly to help you out.

By the same token, if you notice any features not covered below please let us know.

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Using Blogs
Adding rich text, images, and videos to your blog post
Editing your blog post after it's been posting
Manage comments on your blog post

More on Blogs
• Please keep the content related to mini-comics, alternative comics, underground comix, that sort of thing.
• Your blog post will be fed into the main blog on the front page and will also be viewable in your individual blog (located at Blogs > My Blog)
• You can also upload a new post via the "Quick Add" dropdown menu in the right column of just about any page.
• Adding tags to your post: multi-word tags should be placed in double quotes, all tags should be space- (or comma-) separated.

Using the Forums
Follow a discussion
Subscribe to a discussion with RSS
Add images or rich text to a discussion post
View your discussions
Manage a discussion you started

Using Groups
Joining, particpating, creating, etc.

Using Photos
View all photos, rating, favorites
Upload photos from your computer
Submit photos via phone or email
Import photos from Flickr
Edit your photos
Create a photo album

Your Profile Page
Customizing the layout, updating, etc.

RSS Feeds
Using RSS at Poopsheet

Status Updates
Adding a status update

Badges
Customizing, adding to another website

Inviting New Members
Clicking 'Invite' in the top menu opens a page that offers a variety of ways to invite friends who you think would enjoy this site. Please keep in mind that some of your friends may not want their e-mail addresses shared with Ning. An alternative is to simply send them a link to the site and point them to the "Sign Up" link in the top right corner.

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Notes on Privacy:
Not all communication is private! When posting on a member's Comment Wall, other members of the site can see what you wrote. If you want to send a private message, click on that member's profile and use Send a Message in the left column. This will be a personal message from you to them which cannot be seen by anyone else.

Here's more info from Ning on safety tips and settings.