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Gentle reminders
A gentle reminder on posting rules in light of our 95-post day yesterday:

Please check for duplicates before posting. Please check for duplicates before posting.

Please remember to edit and cut the fluff. It makes articles shorter and easier to read. There's no need to put "snip" in anywhere -- MSM editors don't use "snip" when they edit out all the balance and content, why should you?
Your comments go as hilite text on a separate line (almost always), not embedded in the article text. Sorta like this.
There's no need to add extra paragraph breaks. If you want to embed a snarky comment or a dumb-assed comment like mine within the article, use the 'strike' text.

Also, remember to put the link in the 'source' box -- don't embed it as an 'href' in the text. Try not to embed pictures that reference out to another news source, as it eats bandwidth, unless we really need the pic to understand the story.

Opinions go to the new & improved 'Opinions' page. Snappy, eh? 'WoT Operations' are for the end-result: who whacked whom, etc. 'WoT Background' is for the rest of the WoT. While many of us have a fondness for tech, space issues, and the like, that generally is found elsewhere on the net -- if you feel you have to post that stuff here, edit it severely. Stupid animal-human stories are always welcome. Edit severely and put into 'Non WoT'.

'Short Attention-Span Theater' is not used to move a story to the top -- we have the ledes at the top for that purpose. Put the post in the category that is appropriate.

As always, thanks!
Also, please wait a moment and check to see if your comment got through before you resend it. I've been deleting duplicates when/where I notice them, but since the Net has been slow lately with kids out of school, a lot have been creeping in.
Thanks!
Update for Mike and the lovely Mrs. Davis: as the other Steve noted, put 'EFL' in hilite text at the top; we'll all know that you edited the post for length/content. There's no need for 'snip', ellipses, or anything else. Most weblogs I've seen that summarize news from elsewhere do it this way.

For Phil B: Tranzi idiocy is always welcome. If the original was an opinion piece, put it in the 'Opinion' section. If from a weblog, put the title and source in the proper boxes but don't quote the text (or just the key lede); we can go there.

And don't be putting large pictures, loooong links or collections of links in comments. It can blow formatting on the whole page. I just had to put someone in the Troll bin for that very reason. If Fred is feeling kind he may let you out.

Posted by: Steve White 2005-06-29
http://www.rantburg.com/poparticle.php?ID=122769