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2019-07-08 -Lurid Crime Tales-

No Death Penalty For 'imbecile' Sinaloa Gang Enforcer

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Posted by Dron66046 2019-07-08 02:21|| || Front Page|| [10 views ] Top
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#1 Dron66046, is everything starting with “The 100 kilo imbecile” your commentary, ,or are you quoting something? Because it isn’t from the original Breitbart article, so I wasn’t sure what to do with it moderator-wise.

Posted by trailing wife 2019-07-08 07:22|| 2019-07-08 07:22|| Front Page Top

#2 Sorry, the 100 kilo imbecile was just my take on the perp's photo. Forgot to put it in highlight. Everything above this photo is from Breitbart.

The judge's portion is from the UK's Sun, it has a link colored red to his dishonorable past. Info about the Guzman tapes is from recent news.

Posted by Dron66046 2019-07-08 07:59|| 2019-07-08 07:59|| Front Page Top

#3 I take it that the grey highlighted comments are Dron's. Dron, please use the normal yellow highlight offered by the comment dialog, you are not yet a moderator.

Posted by KBK 2019-07-08 11:24|| 2019-07-08 11:24|| Front Page Top

#4 Oh... ok. Will comply.

Man... I was having such fun. Bureaucracy everywhere.

Posted by Dron66046 2019-07-08 11:47|| 2019-07-08 11:47|| Front Page Top

#5 *Big hug* You see how in-line comments are meant to look, Dron66046, highlighted and in a separate line from article text.

Fred offers a standard yellow highlighter named yellow for regular posters to use on the articles they post. Moderators get their own colours so that when we kibitz in other people’s articles, y’all will know who to blame. ;-) Note also that I put the source name in square brackets at the beginning of the article text. That is to make it easier to find the URL should the poster forget to paste that when submitting — if it can’t be found easily the [unpaid] moderators will delete the submission — and so that readers with a particular liking or dislike of certain sources can more easily judge whether he wants to read/trust a given article.

In the row of icons across the top of the article submission box there are two for highlighting text: the pouring paint can and the square with lines. Both work — just select the text to be highlighted, then click on the icon. The paint icon is a straight highlighter. The block icon throws in a blank line at the end, so the next line of article text needs to be snugged up after the final >.

Fred even gave us an icon for pull-out quotes.

There is also white box icon with yellow in the top left quarter. That’s for highlighting pull-out quotes from the article, I keep those for longer articles so a few key points are emphasized for those who don’t want to read the whole thing, just like those fancy magazines do.

Posted by trailing wife 2019-07-08 13:23|| 2019-07-08 13:23|| Front Page Top

#6 OMG — it blinks!!

Just as an aside, I envy your skillz, dear Dron66046. I am pretty much the legendary Microsoft end user, and it’s taken me years just to be able to use Fred’s icons.

Posted by trailing wife 2019-07-08 13:29|| 2019-07-08 13:29|| Front Page Top

#7 I can't use Microsoft Office or the whole powerpoint/excel/outlook tzimisz to save my life.

Skills... ha ! I just learn fast, extrapolating from what Fred told me. I used the code from the image posting button. Putting the link after img src= and voila ! It can be an animated GIF, like so:

Pretty handy for making a point or something funnier.

Posted by Dron66046 2019-07-08 13:59|| 2019-07-08 13:59|| Front Page Top

#8 Dron, I meant to refer to the article posting dialog. Knock yourself out in the comment dialogs!! I just expect that the text in the articles is a paste from the source, unless appropriately highlighted with the standard colors.

TW, thanks for the pointers on using the article posting dialog.

I also noticed that the Rantburg images access tools has been greatly improved. Good job, it’s a fine collection!

Posted by KBK 2019-07-08 14:02|| 2019-07-08 14:02|| Front Page Top

#9 Roger that. Comments can be gone nuts with. Thank you, KBK, TW. And I'll appropriately mention it if I happen to let loose within an article, with brackets or sumpin'.

Posted by Dron66046 2019-07-08 14:18|| 2019-07-08 14:18|| Front Page Top

#10 Within articles your in-line comments should be highlighted in yellow. In comments, as long as it isn’t one of the moderator colours, I have no opinion.

I’m going to go back to the article right now and make that change.

Posted by trailing wife 2019-07-08 15:35|| 2019-07-08 15:35|| Front Page Top

#11 And I shall remain indebted, madam.

Posted by Dron66046 2019-07-08 15:37|| 2019-07-08 15:37|| Front Page Top

#12 There's no way to self edit our articles is there ?

Posted by Dron66046 2019-07-08 15:43|| 2019-07-08 15:43|| Front Page Top

#13 Whew! Done.

Only moderators can make changes to articles once they’ve been submitted. But you can do anything before clicking Submit, which is why it’s important to preview the silly thing using the Preview button, to make sure it looks exactly as intended.

Posted by trailing wife 2019-07-08 15:50|| 2019-07-08 15:50|| Front Page Top

#14 Thanks. I'll take the utmost care. I shant be the one who kills you with carpal tunnel from now.☺

Posted by Dron66046 2019-07-08 15:57|| 2019-07-08 15:57|| Front Page Top

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