Tips

Tip #4 - Check your email address

By SharperIron Wed, 10/19/2011 - 5:29pm
  • Sent us a message via the site Contact Form but haven’t received a reply?
  • Check your email address! If the email address is invalid, we have no way to reach you.
  • Check your SPAM filters to see if our reply is being blocked.

Tip #3 - Comment Formatting Keys

By SharperIron Fri, 05/13/2011 - 11:00am

Shortcut keys for formatting comment text. In Internet Exp. 8 & Chrome: Alt+i = italics tags   Alt+b = bold tags   Alt+u = underline   Alt+q = quote tags   Alt+n = indent tags (Firefox requires Alt+Shift combos for many of these)

Tip #4 Benefits of Registration

By SharperIron Tue, 02/15/2011 - 12:46pm

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Registered SI users can…

  • bookmark content, ”like” posts, vote in polls
  • get discussion updates via email
  • and more… register here

Tip #2 - Old versions of Internet Explorer

By SharperIron Mon, 09/20/2010 - 9:33am

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Internet Explorer versions 6 and 7 do not properly render SharperIron (and many other sites). Please update to IE8 or, better yet, switch to Firefox or Chrome (users report that Safari and Opera handle the site well.)

Tip #1 - Flagging Bad Posts

By SharperIron Fri, 09/17/2010 - 7:03pm

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SI has a system for flagging inappropriate posts
At the bottom of each forum post, an icon appears that looks like this: .   Clicking the icon makes the post appear on the Moderating Team’s list of posts to check for compliance with the Comment Policy. For flagged posts, the icon looks like this.  read more