Question, place thread in forum

There may be thousands. How did you come up with 48?

I count only 48

It might be a semantic issue though. Perhaps you’re talking about tags where I’m asking about forums

thanks Oss for the tip but I was more concerned with placing an existing thread into a forum

not sure where you're counting from, but there are general headings, with the tags relating to topics under that general heading being found there, but if you look at the tags under a thread title, they are preceded by the label Forums

See post above. I’m interested in forum where you're discussing tag

By “general headings” Djj do you mean forum titles such as “Consumer Electronics"

That's because there are no fora, other than those which exist in the sense of being tagged. If someone tags a thread "commodity trading," then that thread, and any other with such a tag, become the content of the commodity trading forum. Why are you attempting to impose an order on the material here other than that which is being used?

Put the word tagging in the SEARCH TAGS box on the New Posts page.
Wait to see what comes up. Tagging will come up in the word list. Click on that.
You will then see the Tagging Forum, which includes all the threads that have been tagged "tagging".

Thanks for explaining that, Set. However, if I had forgotten its exact title and in the tag box entered only “pets”, would it nevertheless be placed in the “Pets and Garden” forum

I don’t understand the question as I didn’t realize that in any way I was attempting to impose any sort of order, merely asking how something is done

People have explained to you again and again how it's done.

Oss I think you misunderstand my question. I submit a post. Next day I wish it to be cited in the forum. So do I access the “tags” box and there enter "Pets and Garden”

If so suppose I had forgotten the title. If I enter only “Garden” will it nonetheless be cited in “Pets and Garden”

Or do I place the citation there in some other way

Perhaps it’s a semantic matter, there’s some confusion between “tag” and “forum” or maybe I’m not using the term “citation” correctly, it should be “reference” or “listing”. By “citation" I mean for instance the entry of a thread under a particular forum title. I am not at all concerned with the exact meaning of “tag”, only want to place a thread into an already existing forum

In fact, if you go to your profile page, you will find a list of all of your tags. If you go to someone else's profile page, you will find a list of all of their tags. To locate any thread, just click on the relevant tag.

If you're hell-bent on using the fora, look up in the upper right-hand corncer, and click on "Search." When you reach that page, ignore the search window, and click on "Forums."

I counted them, here:

http://able2know.org/forums/


Again maybe it’s entirely a semantic issue, you’re talking about tags and I’m talking about forums in which I apologize most profusely for my confusion at 81 as an average clod with incipient Alz’s

In some 2 decades doing this sort of thing on the Web site forums until I came here I had never encountered the term “tag,” don’t know what it is, what it’s used for, or why its’s necessary, forgive me, I mean no harm

I’m sorry Set, a?k is so vastly different from all other forums in which I’ve participated over the last couple of decades that I am unable to cope with its intricacies but nonetheless thank you profusely for your efforts to help, you are all really fine folk and I love you all

All of the items under the larger headings are fora, too.

For example, on that page it says:



All of those are fora. Politics is one. American Politics is another. Political is a third. Religion is a fourth. And the ellipse means that there are even more.

Here's the American Politics Forum, for example:

http://able2know.org/forum/american_politics/

So, there are many, many fora. Way more than 48. At least hundreds.

In conclusion thanks all you guys for your valiant if futile efforts as I think we speak a different sort of language so let us terminate this thread, there’s no help for the Average Clod (me) under the circumstances

However I might digress in hope of clarifying my confusion: At other such sites I click on a forum then compose an OP, which when I submit becomes a thread, situated in the forum I had selected. A?k evidently doesn’t work that way but somehow entails the use of tags so please forgive me for my vast ignorance of the 21st century ins and outs of the digital world but thank you again for your patience and fortitude

Soz you don’t need to reply to this post but thank you for trying to clarify

I can’t find a forum entitled “Politics” but under the forum “American politics” I find something called “Obama Socialism.” What I find there I have always understood to be a “thread” by a participant named “Lusatian”

At the bottom of this thread however is a listing of pertinent threads apparently labeled with the username of their originators. I haven’t encountered such a listing anywhere else but I suppose the items in this listing are what you call “tags” but as I said, it’s all apparently a semantic issue

that’s the one I couldn’t find

Yes I found that one]. It’s No. 48

Aha! Now I am beginning to understand. By “ellipse” you mean “subsequent page”. I see many many forums and now I comprehend that you let anyone at any time create one, a practice with which I am not familiar

However when I click on one I get a posting which now I understand doesn’t constitute an entire thread but only the first post of some other thread which we have always called an “OP", or “opening post.” Below it then are those entries which at other such sites would be called “threads,” and listed by poster’s username contrary to the usual method which is by title of thread. I don’t know what you call this listing nor what you call each entry but I am guessing they might be what you call “tags"




Yes, that’s indeed a forum but instead of containing threads as the usual custom, it contains entries I’m not sure what to call, each containing an OP followed by a listing of pertinent threads listed by usernames


Yes of course Soz but now you can see how almost the entire issue is one of semantics. Again thank you most wholeheartedly for your incredible forbearance

As you can see my main problem if not incipient Alz’s is accustomization of forum sites all using very similar purchased software whereas a?k’s is unique, being constructed as it is by your crew, bless them

Keep up the good work, I love chatting with you fellas

As you have been informed, all tags are known as forums. The ones on that opening page are apparently the most popular forums.

Try following my last suggestion of looking up "tagging" in the SEARCH TAGS box on the New Posts threads - to the right of the page.


Also try clicking on the words in the second blue band at the top of the page to see what you will find.


Also try clicking on the words in the dark blue band at the bottom of the page for the same reason.


Edit - I apologize - what it says above the box to the right in the New Posts page is SEARCH FORUMS, not SEARCH TAGS. But it's the same thing, just stick the word you want in that box and see what words come up.

Then is an individual thread also a forum

Aha! Then you shuffle them around. Now I’m beginning to vaguely get the pic

Again forgive me Oss for a lack of clarity in my old age but I am not concerned with tagging, I only ask how to place an existing thread into one of those pop forums

I think placing them in order of popularity was a fine idea and I congratulate you and yours. Forgive me for any difficulty as I’m accustomed to forums using very similar purchased software.


Yes of course. “My tags” of course I probably wouldn’t use “My posts” serves admirably most of the time while I was happy to learn I didn’t need “My topics” since it was subsumed under “My Posts,” saving me hours switching back and forth between the two. I spend so much time at my own topics that I think I shall never need “New Topics” or “New Posts” at least til I deal with my own

I have used several of them but I am curious about “My Email Updates” since I’ve been advised that for some obscure reason a?k doesn’t have that capability or that it did at one time but somehow failed and can’t be restored

Incidentally I note another apparent glitch which might not be a glitch at all but really a very useful feature, and that is that while I am writing an edit there’s no way to scroll except using the up-down keyboard arrows. Then during the editing sometimes the blue scroll bar appears out of nowhere for which I am gfrateful but I’m not sure what I did to acquire it

Hello test. Edited to remark that this time the blue bar appeared instantly, and this time I was able to submit. Everything seems to happen at random

However when this bar appears at the same time I now cannot submit the posting, I get only an error message, “Topic not found,” leaving me in a daze. But I overcome it by copying the entire post,exiting edit, then re-entering it as this new reply

Alas Don’t be angry, I mean only the best and I love you as well as your buddies who seem less disturbed by my style. Forgive me, I can’t help it

You place it in a forum by tagging it with the name of that forum.

If you want it to go in the Philosophy forum, you tag it "Philosophy." It's then in the Philosophy forum.

If you want it to go in the Pets and Garden forum, you tag it "Pets and Garden." It's then in the Pets and Garden forum.

If you want it to go in the Pets and Garden forum but you don't remember what it's called, and so you tag your thread with "Pets," instead, it goes in the Pets forum.

Then you check the list of forums and realize that you meant to put it in "Pets and Garden." No problem. You go ahead and add the "Pets and Garden" tag and now it's in both the Pets forum and the Pets and Garden forum.

A single thread can be in several fora at once.

i hold all my tags deer, i consider the results fawna rather that fora