Please:
If a story is about
an astronomical event Society members might like
to observe then please post it in
Alerts! Questions? Discussions... (http://forum.orpington-astronomy.org.uk/index.php?board=2.0) instead.
It's probably better to
post "funnies" to Chat (http://forum.orpington-astronomy.org.uk/index.php?board=3.0) right from the start...
If a message generates a lot of discussion then the discussion may well be split out and moved to an appropriate alternative section.
When posting, please:
- Put the headline (or a clear accurate alternative) into the subject.
- Quote a few lines of the story or give a brief synopsis of the video (so that there's something for the forum's search engine to find, and to help readers choose whether to follow the link).
- Follow that with a link to the story or video.
- Put further stories on a particular subject into replies rather than as threads of their own.
Please do not hot-link*1 images (using the IMG tag) from media sites. Post about the story instead, and send folk to the source to see the images.
Please
use the url= form of the URL tag for long URLs, thus:
[url=http://some.great.long.url/with/lots/of/directory/levels]Short text readers see[/url]
*1 - that is, link to an image on a server you can't use to store images.