Newsvine Mentors Are Standing By To Answer Your Questions/Deal With Your Needs (2010 Edition)

Hi Scott - I'm fairly new here (but I've got some great friends already). I just clicked on the intro link and it < gulp > has 515 comments spread over 6 pages and dates back to October 2007. In message board years, that's almost prehistoric. I will go back and read through it, but please consider this an official request for an updated introductory thread. (I hate to get interested in exciting new people only to discover after we've met that they moved on last year to another community and haven't been around since.)

Thanks!

Hi, I'm new...newer than it says actually...

I answered a question a long time ago about grammar perfectionists. It was a one time thing, thus my name. I'm not really a grammar-phobe. But I do get irritated when I see others flamed for their spelling and/or grammar. I pretty much hate seeing people get flamed for anything.

Months passed and somehow I found myself here again. This time I stayed longer than just answering the question.

So, hello and nice to meet everyone. My name is Terrie, I'm 45 and live in California with my husband of 28 years and my two grandkids who I have legal custody of. They are 6 & 3 and have been with us their whole lives. So they're MINE, MINE, MINE!

Hi Scott ,

I also am fairly new here .
I put in a request to join a group .
It is still pending .
On further perusal , I don't want to
join this group . Can I withdraw my
request ?

Hi Scott,

I am new here I have to say I have learned plenty from other very kind Mentors/Viners I have written questions about Newsvine and a little article... Dennis and Ben (the Vet) and schnoo have been a great deal of help to me with other Viners as well. I know so much more now and I practice just using the P.C. itself has been a conquest. I once had been in a job that did not require to much in P.C. skills but Newsvine has made me so much better I cannot believe it.

I feel that learning is reading and hands on along with someone else to help you along works quite well. I will take a look at the links you provided in #2 and your article. If Ben and schnoo are not Mentors at the time than I highly recommend them both!

Aimee~~~ please to other viners out there my current name is Froggers but I have felt that I just want to be called by name.

Thanks for this Summer Edition.

Funny thing happened -- I made an error on my lead comment to a post and timed-out on the editor, so I deleted the comment with the result that I received a warning e-mail (fast as can be) from *newsvinehelp.* A similar mix-up on another deletion -- hit the wrong button -- that makes two. I answered the e-mails but heard no more about it. Don't want a bad rep so early in the game -- is it "three strikes your out?"

Ah HA!! Thanks for posting this, Scott. I've been trying to figure out how to properly link stuff, and this article led me to rottlady's article, and .....and.....and, I think I've figured out how to do it. I think..... May I try it here?

Scott - where in the world can I find out how to change a display name - not for me but for a 'friend'? I would never get rid of Soovivers but others I know do want to change their names and I can't find it in help?

Thanks and so sorry you lost the job too! What a summer you have had so far. It's gotta get better - I mean it can't go anywhere but up at this point for you.

Okay, hypothetical, a viner posts a kind of ongoing series of articles about what's going on in her life as a bi-polar person/wife/mother. She posts to specific groups and all of NV and is getting dogged by someone saying it shouldn't be meta. Would this be a problem and why?

You're always such a help Scott!

Hey Scott,

No Newsvine question for you, but I just wanted to stop by and say Hi. Also wanted to tell you that I put up an article about an Orange County band (The Vandals) and a seed from the Daily Pilot (the Costa Mesa CA paper) about The Cuckoo's Nest - Remember that hot spot of OC music?

Stop by sometime my friend, would love to hear your thoughts. :^)

Hope all is well for you and yours,

Aloha

If you are on an article with a lot of posts, while you are posting others are posting behind you. You will not see them on your tracker. Every time you post a comment it refreshes the page and the new comments come up but you aren't aware unless you go back to the beginning. It's impossible to keep up. For me it's really bad because I have to think carefully before typing, I type slow, and have a slow PC and dial up. By the time I post a response, there are 6 comments between me and what I was responding to.

This is a good reason to address your comments to the person you are responding to. If you are talking to me but other comments get between us, yours could be taken the wrong way.

I have a question or (suggestion.)

Does the NewsVine comity reward members for good behavior at the end of the year? You know, give them some kind of honor or recognition; I believe this incentive could reduce stroll and bring members to interact between them more respectfully. Have you thought of that?

I published an article today which was meant for Meta and can't get it there. It's sitting in All of Newsvine. How can I move it and where exactly is Meta? Thanks for any answers.

I've had this come up more than a few times when asking someone for the source of their information. Often the response is "Google it! That's what I did." That's new person speak for "I don't know how." So here is my best explanation of how to link an article:

When you're on the article, go to the address bar and right click, on the drop down menu left click copy. Come back to your open comment (or open a comment) and I usually type the word source then highlight it. Above the comment box there is a chain link for adding a link and the next is broken for breaking the link. Click the solid chain link and a box will appear. On the top line right click and paste the address of the article. Click OK and the word source will show underlined. After you post the comment anyone who clicks on that underlined word 'source' will be taken to that page.

You can go to my article if you don't quite understand and see where this same link is used in the article. Putting it in an article is a little bit different than in a comment.

Ok Scoop, I've got 3.

1. This is a useful article that I would like to keep handy for reference purposes (as are others I've come across). How would I do that in Newsvine? Is there a "favorites" listing?
2. Does NV stand for Newsvine? When someone mentioned the state of affairs on NV, I thought they were talking about Nevada.
3. I have a friend. Let's call him.....Austin. He is an excellent writer, but he posts an exhorbitant amount of stuff on NV. I would like to find/read a few articles he wrote about a year ago. Let's say they're about his feelings toward his late dad. How would I search for this? Here's what I've tried: Going to his page, looking under the categories of articles, clicking on "memoirs" but only finding about 5 links (even though the list said there were about 500)...you get the idea. Is there a search bar or some such? If so, should I just put in a key word, or the author's name ("Austin", in this case).

Thanks so much!!