How to Start Your First Thread...

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From time to time, members reach out asking how to introduce themselves or post their own threads. So we've decided to put up step by step instructions.

1) Check up near the top of your screen (just below the ParrotForums.com banner). You should see several destination points lined up horizontally across the screen on a stripe of blue, starting with "Home" on the left and "Log Out" on the far right. Click on the option for "Forums", just to the right of "Home".

2) Scroll down the Forums page until you see the option for "New Members Welcome". Click.

3) If you look at the top of where the "New Members Welcome" threads are listed, you will see "Threads in Forum: New Members Welcome" in white type against a black bar. Just above that, in smaller lettering, will be a tab that says "New Thread". Click.

4) The next page will give you blank fields for the title of your thread, and the message itself. Type away!

5) If you are inclined to use smilies in the body of your text, there are an array of options just below your message window. You can also click on the "More" option to see the rest.

6) Once you are done, click on the "Submit Message" tab a little further down.

And Taa-daa! You've posted your first thread!

Following these same steps, you can post threads in any section you would like. (Just remember not to cross post!) Or, if you'd like to check out someone else's thread, just click on their title. And if you'd like to respond to any of their posts, just scroll down to the bottom of their thread to the "Quick Reply" area, type in your response, and click on the "Post Quick Reply" tab.

I hope this proves helpful. Feel free to either post here or contact one of the moderators should you have further questions not covered by this post.
 
From time to time, members reach out asking how to introduce themselves or post their own threads. So we've decided to put up step by step instructions.

I hope this proves helpful. Feel free to either post here or contact one of the moderators should you have further questions not covered by this post.

Very commendable insight, but a Super Moderator shouldn't have to share recognition for their own foresight.....
 
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Thank you for your kind words, weco, but this wasn't so much sharing recognition as sincerely acknowledging the contributions and support of my fellow mods.

After all, so much is discussed and planned behind the scenes, so to speak, that it would be somewhat disingenuous of me to have done otherwise.
 
Well, given that the misinterpretation was mine, I will extend my commendation to all who collaborated on it's inception as I would guess that it will be helpful to someone and having said that, can you answer a question I've wondered about, probably since having joined.....since each post shows up under 'current topics' and replies are made to the post via the "reply to thread" provisio and by using the forum's search provision what is the value of the different forums, other than redundancy?
 
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Convenience. And visibility.

Some may be partial to discussions within a particular forum to the exclusion of all others, for instance. If someone were only interested in say, eclectus patrots, it would save them the trouble of having to wade through all the other stuff searching for his/her true point of interest.

Conversely, while a search may yield fruit when it comes to topics you want to find, there is something to be said for stumbling upon a hitherto unexpected point of interest via perusal of other forums. And the current format of sub-divided forums is far more user-friendly and far less unwieldy and downright intimidating than an unorganized gestalt of parrot facts and anecdotes would be.

You know what I mean?
 
I love this forum.
 

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