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Apr 3, 2015 11 years ago
Sequoia
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Rhelex

I have been on this site for only two weeks so I am so sorry if this question is silly! ^.^ However, what is a ping and what does it do? LOL! I see everyone saying ping me and I have no idea what that means! XP

Apr 3, 2015 11 years ago
Karen
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He-man_769

Do you see the bar that runs on top of each individual post? It starts with "Posted on: ..." On the right hand side there are numerous icons. The megaphone will automatically generate a ping for the person who made the post you're clicking on. Pings notify people to come back to the board. Here's me pinging you -

Edit: You can also ping users by using the @ sign and typing a users name.

Apr 3, 2015 11 years ago
Sequoia
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Rhelex

You are awesome Karen! Thank you so much for taking the time to explain! ^.^

Apr 3, 2015 11 years ago
Karen
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He-man_769

@ Sequoia Absolutely! You've got it now!

Edit again: Argh. Stupid editing not working correctly.

Apr 3, 2015 11 years ago
Sequoia
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Rhelex

I got it! ^.^ I love all the fun things you can do on these boards! Thank you!

Apr 3, 2015 11 years ago
Solsticesprite
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if you are typing it out, the username has punctuation or a space, you should put an underscore _ instead of it. For some usernames the megaphone doesn't properly insert, and you can get those users by typing it out, but some people are just not ping-able and you will have to Comment them.

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