Forum Help
Contents
About the SDC forum
Getting Started: Moving Around
Joining the forum
How to Post
How to Edit a Post
Private Messages
About the SDC forum
The SDC forum is a place for anyone with an interest in Sustainable Development issues to discuss, debate and share knowledge and experiences. Although the site is run by the Sustainable Development Commission it is only moderated as a last resort where posts contain the following:
- Personal Insults
- Racism and Sexism
- Pornographic material (including links)
- Advertising
Full terms and conditions relating to forum participation are detailed in the Acceptable Usage Policy located in the Off Topic forum.
Getting Started: Moving Around
The SDC forum is actually a group of several forums, each with its own descriptive name. All forums can have several topics which in turn can have many posts.
- To see the topics in a forum, click that forum's name.
- To see the posts in a topic, click that topic's title.
You can return to the homepage of this forum at any time by:
- clicking on Forum Index button at the top of the page
Joining the forum
In order to add your own posts, reply to other posts and send private messages, you must register. Registration is very quick and we require very little of your personal information and never share it with anyone else. A valid email address is required.
To register:
- Click on the Login button at the top of the page
- Click on the register here link
- As a minimum, you must enter your email address and choose a screen name and password.
- To personalise your profile, we recommend that you add a photo and your name. Other registered users will be able to view this information.
- The Notify me of replies option will cause an email to be sent to you every time someone replies to a topic that you have created.
- When you have entered all information, click on the Register button
To view another members profile, click on their screen name which appears next to all their posts.
How to Post
- You can create a new topic in a forum by clicking the Start a new topic button.
- You can add a comment to a topic by clicking on the Contribute to this debate link at the top and bottom of a page.
- You can reply to a post by clicking either the reply or reply with quote buttons. The difference between these buttons is that when you click the reply with quote button, the entire post will appear quoted in the text editor whereas clicking the reply button will bring up an empty text editor.
The text editor has five buttons to make your posts richer. To use them, click once on the required button, this will create a tag. Enter your text and then click again to close the tags.
| [b]Bold[/b] | Bold |
| [i]Italic[/i] | Italic |
| [u]Underline[/u] | Underline |
| [img]http://www.sd-commission.org.uk/images/logo.gif[/img] | Image (from the web) |
| [url=http://www.sd-commission.org.uk]Sample Link[/url] | Sample Link |
Editing a Post
Find the post you want to edit, and click the Edit button. Unless you are a moderator, you can only edit your own posts.
Sending Private Messages
You can send private messages to other members of the forum via email. Private messages can be useful if you only want to share something with one member. You can send messages from two locations:
- Click on the Send email link in a user's profile (entered by clicking on their user name)
- Click on the send email link below a users portrait on the left hand side of a post.
This will take you to a form which will allow you to type your message and choose whether you want to reveal your email address to the other user. If you choose not to do this, a link will be provided in the message so that they can reply to you using the private messaging functionality on the forum.
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