@ucme & @Earthbound_Misfit… in the US we have three different kinds of sugar-preserved fruit spreads, because we like to make things complicated: jam, jelly, and preserves. Cooking Light steps through the differences… and if you haven’t seen it already, this “jelly” debacle has reminded me of a clip I ran across a little while ago… thought you might enjoy! ;)
@Outthere—another hearty welcome to Fluther! Hope you’re planning to stick aroundhere… My experiences on this site have always been positive. Fluther members are an eclectic, opinionated, well-spoken, compassionate, often hilarious group. You can ask them basically anything, and expect just about any type of conversation to appear.
We are as likely to get into the details of a topic as we are to get into a tangent on it—and we usually do both simultaneously.
We know how to have serious (and sometimes heated) conversations in one thread, and then throw a stupendous party in the next.
In fact, we have parties for certain lurve-based milestones in the “Meta” section, and everyone’s invited—good fun, where the drinks are self-pouring and the lurve is free-flowing.
There are some recurring game threads—jump on into them when you see them.
Also: we have a strong affinity for pancakes.
Some things you might not know yet, but might find useful at some point:
– Look over the guidelines if you haven’t yet. They’re brief, but give you a lay of the land.
– OP = original post or original poster, depending on context.
– GA & GQ = great answer and great question, respectively
– After a while, when you notice your questions or answers getting “GQ” or “GA” but your lurve score not increasing, it’s because whoever clicked the Great Question or Great Answer button has already maxed out on the points they can award you (we can each award each person 100 points. The GQ/GA still shows up on the post itself.) Not a huge thing, just something that can seem odd when you first notice it.
– The topic buttons (see the red-orange-boxed “questions” in your OP) are nifty. Click on it and you’ll be taken to that topic’s “page”—and you can see all the things you can do from there. If you’re on the dekstop version of the site, you can also hover over the icon for quick options.
– There is a 10-minute editing window on answers. You can see the editing option as red-orange underlined text on the bottom of your post.
– The editing window for questions is either 10 or 30 minutes. I think it used to be 30 but for some reason I think it’s 10 now? Anyway, there’s an editing window for questions, too.
– Questions can get moved from “General” to “Social” (ask a mod if it’s necessary) but rarely will they go from “Social” to “General.”
– There is a timestamp for responses on the desktop version of the site. Hover your cursor near the bottom of a response (in line with the username, score, “Great Answer” option, etc.). Once you see the paragraph symbol pop up, hover over it and wait for a second or two—the date and timestamp should appear in a hover-over text box.
– Click on the paragraph symbol to get the permalink for that specific reply—copy the new URL from your browser’s address bar.
– Typing an @ before a user’s name makes it into a link that, when clicked, takes you back to their most recent comment on the thread (or, when it’s the OP’s username, back to the top of the thread.) If you’re on the desktop version of the site, typing an @ into the textbox will make a dropdown list appear which contains all the names of users who have previously commented.
– Fluther users are typically called jellies or sometimes Flutherites
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