How To Comment

Can I make a confession?

I’m always surprised by the amount of bright people who admit to being baffled.

By what seems to me to be the simple task of leaving a comment, here on Nik Nak’s Old Peculiar.

To me, it always seems easy to do.

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It’s relatively simple.
  • Follow the links from either Facebook, Twitter or Instagram, to get to Nik Nak’s Old Peculiar.   
  • Click on the title of the post that’s caught your eye*.
  • Scroll to the bottom of the post: you’ll find a line of text that says either ‘0 Comments’ or ‘Post a Comment’.   Click on that.
  • That takes you to the next screen: the Comment publishing screen.   Put your comment in the box, provided.
  • When asked, type in the text in the picture into the relevant box. (The one that Says ‘Type The Text’.)
  • Pick the identity you want your comment published under.
  • Finally, press the orange ‘Publish Your Comment’ button.
I’ve had the occasional anonymous comment that I’ve found objectionable: so I’d prefer you to leave your name.   The easiest way to do that is click the buttons that let you use you G+ ID.   You can also the Name/URL button to leave your Twitter/Facebook/website ID.   If you DO want to use the Anonymous option, I’d appreciate you leaving your name at the end of your comment.

That way … ?   That way, I can also filter out spam comments: who tend to use the Anonymous option, and usually advertise Viagra.   (When I started this blog, I didn’t mind anonymous comments.   But, after having those early objectionable, or actionable — or just plain badly spelt — comments?   I felt that people leaving a name, even even just signing it at the bottom of the post, was preferable to having nothing.)

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As a final point, I know I’ve had one or two people complain that they can’t get a comment to stick.

In that case, I have a suggestion.

Write your comment in WordPad, TextEdit, gEdit or Word — whatever your preferred lightweight word processing app is — and then copy and paste it into the Comment Box I mentioned above.

Then carry on.

That USUALLY avoids your comments getting eaten by Google!

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As final thoughts … ?

I’ve made movies explaining how to comment … 



You can also copy and paste on a tablet:
  • For Android tablets, you can read this
  • This is how you do it on iOS.
On more moderna Android phones: you can scroll down until you reach this … 


I hope this How To helps.





*        Generally, the titles of the Daily Teasers lead, not to that Teaser, but to that day’s YouTube video.   The video has a link to the relevant Teaser:  in the information box under the video.   That will take you to the relevant Teaser post.   Thank you, once again, for listening.

5 comments:

Anonymous said...

Looks good to me Paul, but the black May be too fierce for most eyes in demarcating the page edges

Regards
Mike

Unknown said...

Hi Paul 😊
What a great teaser !!!
My answers:
Q1 - Ottoman empire
Q2 - 05/10/1908
Q3 - Republic
Q4 - Sofia
Q5 - Cyrillic
Q6 - Orthodox
Q7 - Guitar
Q8 - Music
Q9 - Brandy
Q10 - Liberation day

Unknown said...

In RE today's teaser and specifically Q7, the answer can be both a guitar and a lute, depends on the strings used for the tambura 😊 az a form it leaning towards lute, however, the tambura is from the guitar family. But I might be wrong 😊 and to deserve the 'look'.

Freda said...

1 Thursday
2 Turkey
3 Pumpkins
4 Eve!
5 Macy's

carly burns said...

Can't remember the order of questions but.
30 days.
Libra. (Depends what day in Sept birthday is)
Septum is the bit in nose between nostrils.
Sept means seven (did you know it used to be the 7th month)
Sapphires are blue