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The TGN Mod Squad: List of Moderators
If you need to contact our moderators for any reason*, here is a list so that you don't have to go searching. I updated the list so that help in your broader time zone will likely get a faster response. *First check the FAQs & Tutorials area for the answer to your question. If it has already been answered in this section,…
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Tutorial: Adding an Avatar to your profile
Adding a customized avatar is a helpful addition to your public profile as we exchange ideas. It helps us know who we are talking with (you don't need a picture of yourself...it can be of any number of things). Often, the system has "members" listed by the same name, and we need to know if we are replying to an imaginary…
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TUTORIAL: PM (Private Messaging) & Notification Settings
Send a PM: 1. Click on your avatar picture in the upper right hand corner of your screen. You will see a drop down menu. 2. Click on the envelope symbol. 3. Tap on the little paper & pencil symbol. This will bring up a space to post a new message. 4. Type in your recipient's name. You will find suggestions of members name…
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Tutorial: How to Post a Visual "Picture" Link
If you want to post a link that shows up as more than just a plain blue link: 1. Click return on your keyboard after including an introductory summary or your thoughts about the subject. 2. Press return. 3. Copy the url of the link that you wish to post. Paste into your discussion. 4. Press return. 5. Continue on with…
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Tutorial: How to Embed a YouTube Video in Forum Posts
Here is a video Marjory made that shows you how to embed a YouTube video into your forum posts:
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TIP: Long Posts & Readability
When a member posts long posts, it is a good idea to break the post into paragraphs for easier readability. This tends to invite more people to read the comment instead of glancing at the post & skipping over it. I have found that if you want to engage more people in/around your comment, that breaking it up into smaller…
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Tutorial: Creating a New Discussion
By Desktop: On the right side of your screen, right underneath the search bar at the top of the page, you should see a blue button that says, "New Discussion". If you click directly on the tab it will take you to a page to set up your new thread. There is a drop down menu for categories. You can start a new thread under…
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Tutorial: Tagging a Member Within a Post
If you want to reply to someone in particular, add an "@" then their screen name immediately after. Such as @LaurieLovesLearning It is possible that many similar or even identical names will appear in a drop down window. You need to watch the avatar to make sure that it is the same as the person's avatar. If the member…
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Search Tips: Tags
Did you know that if you click on a tab under a post, everything with that tag will come up as if you searched that word? It should show everything with that exact tag.
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TUTORIAL: Inserting Media into a post
If you wish to insert/inbed a video* into your post, you use the icon that has two arrows surrounded by a box. You can find this at the bottom of the posting box. You will need to copy the url of the media you wish to include, and paste it into the box provided. Click Insert. *If you want to insert a video you have made,…
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TUTORIAL: Paragraph symbol pop up icons explained
When you click on the paragraph symbol, you get HEADING choices. Each one will give you the option of sizes of bold print, like so: H2 Heading 2 H3 Heading 3 H4 Heading 4 H5 Heading 5 The 3 dots & lines symbols give you the option of a bulleted list or an numbered list: See here Like this A numbered list: Like this Now you…
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TUTORIAL: Quoting a portion of a post
If you wish to quote a portion of someone's post, you can do so, and make it clear, by copying the portion you wish to quote, click on the paragraph symbol in the choices that show up at the bottom of your posting box, and click on quote, and paste your quote after the thick line that will then appear in your post. It will…
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Tutorial: Adding Tags to a New Discussion
*A new discussion should have appropriate tags added by the original poster (OP) before pressing the save button.* I am posting this tutorial to give members instruction on how to include tags in a new discussion post. Tags are meant to help find a particular discussion more readily when a search is performed. 1. Just…
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Posting Questions
The Grow Network Forum is a large forum with many members from all around the globe. Considering, we have amassed a large amount of information from and through our generous, sharing members. We would like to suggest that before you post a question, that you use the forum search feature to determine whether your question…
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How do I change my username?
Do I need to be on the computer for that? I’m not seeing an option on mobile.
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TUTORIAL: Notifications
You can choose two types...by email or by in forum pop-ups, or choose both if you wish. 1. Go to your profile picture. Click it. You will see Edit Preferences. Click that. 2. Here you will see Notification Preferences. Listed are all the things you can get notifications for. There are two columns of boxes to check. One is…
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Troubleshooting: Link not working
If you find that a posted link is not working, it could be that you need to: 1. try a different browser. Brave has been good for some. I will leave this thread open for other browser suggestions 2. take the "s" out of the url/address. if it starts with "https://" that may be the only problem with the link 3. Sometimes as…
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Troubleshooting: screen not displaying the page/words properly
Not Showing Page or Words Properly 1. Sometimes using a different browser solves the issue. 2. The next thing you will need to do if #1 doesn't work is to check your "cookies". Not the sweet kind, 😄 but the ones on your device. You will need to clear those along with your cache. Each device does this a little differently,…
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Question regarding 'discord'
I made it in, on an old signup a few years ago, rarely use, have a page pulled up for directions so if anyone has any short cuts to knowing how to interact/share/learn...there, open to all suggs..
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how do i upload my photo?
how do i upload my photo?
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Can Email Address Be Changed?
Can I change the email address for my account? I also do not want an internet wide profile picture / avatar which Wordpress associates with my provided email address. So I plan to use a different email address for each Wordpress based site I post on so that I have more control over my internet privacy.
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The SEARCH function
It appears the search function only searches through the tags on discussions and not the titles or contents of the discussions. Is this correct? If it is correct, is there any way to expand the search function capabilities or are they limited to the platform used for the forum? Thank you for the category for questions for…
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WE have new REACTIONS? OOOOOH!
I was going to hit the Awsome button and I realized it now said "hug". So of course I had to actually read the rest of them to see what was new and exciting. SOoo cool.
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How to delete a Discussion
If I start a Discussion, then change my mind and want to delete it, is there a way to do that?
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Changing Profile Picture?
Does anyone know how I can change my profile picture? It says I don't have permission to do it.
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Tutorial: Adding Tags to a New Discussion
I am posting this tutorial to give members instruction on how to include tags in a new discussion post. Tags are meant to help find a particular discussion more readily when a search is performed. 1. Just below the box where you type the post of a new discussion, there is a box that says "Tags" above it. Type a specific…
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How do I reply to someone's post?
I can open a new question, but not reply to a post.
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Adding links for other people's YouTube videos?
Howdy, Is sharing links to other people's videos on YouTube off limits in this forum? I was going to share links on a thermophilic heating method, but thought i better not until I double check. Thanks.
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Replying to posts
Can someone tell me: if I want to reply to a specific post, do I have to go all the way to the bottom and write my comment? I'm new here, so I'm pretty clueless at the moment. I checked out a bunch of posts (they are so great!), and wanted to respond to each one individually, but I don't see a Reply button near their post.…
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Is there a Draft Capability?
I could have sworn somewhere I remember a tab for Draft was shown somewhere after the new categories were uploaded. But I do not see it now on our response pages. It's only on this New Discussion page. Occasionally, when I type a response I need to go find some info somewhere else so I can finish my response. But often,…