This part of my fanpop User Guide describes some of the basics of using the site, and was last substantively edited on 19 December 2007.
Covered in this article:
Finding spots
Fans of spots and users
Ratings
Favorites
Sharing
Reporting
Finding a spot
There are three primary ways to find spots that fit your interests, which is really the whole point of the site. The first (examples are marked with "1" in the illustration) is par lire the lists on the main page of the site ('fanpop home'): it's entirely possible that some content displayed there is of interest to you, whether it be a spotlit spot, a question, an image, a video, a forum, ou even a spot associated with one of the fans featured on the main page. In general, every time a spot name is listed anywhere on the site, it is a clickable link which will take toi to that spot. A slight exception is the name of a spot in the "recent images" section, which will take toi to that image in the spot, rather than to the main page for that spot (just as if you'd clicked on the thumbnail of the picture).
The seconde way to find a spot (marked with a "2" in the illustration) is par using the chercher function. On every page of the site there is a box in which toi can type key words and then click a chercher button to look for content that matches those words. The chercher will try to find spots which match the words toi enter. Note: when we talk about any content on the site other than the spots themselves (soapbox articles like this one, images, questions & picks, fora, et cetera), we refer to them generically as 'links'. When toi use the chercher function, toi may also find liens that match your chercher terms. chercher results are divided into those two categories: spots, and links, so if you're looking for a spot, you'll find that listed first. The liens are listed in the chercher results below the first five spots listed. The liste of link results have icones that represent the type of link: images, videos, et cetera, but they are all grouped in the same section. chercher results can take plus than one page, so if toi don't see the spot ou link toi want, toi may click the 'more results' link (if available) to liste another page of chercher results of that type (spots ou links).
Note that the chercher is a simple search, however, and does not recognize boolean expressions. That means that +”Kaiju Godzilla” +”cat monster” +video will get the same results as Kaiju cat monster video Kaiju Godzilla, as an example. In addition, the chercher will look for each of the words toi type separately, so the chercher results would be the same for cat video Godzilla Kaiju monster. This means that, for our example chercher above, in addition to getting Godzilla in the results, toi might also get results of 'Some aléatoire plant on a pole', 'Cat says a-ha!' and 'monster truck rally video'. The results are organized in order of accuracy of match, however, so a video of Godzilla fighting a cat monster (if there is one) would come first. If there isn't one, you'll see a message "We couldn't find any exact matches", followed par a liste of partial matches.
The third way to find spots that match your interests (marked with a "3" in the illustration, above) is to use the 'Browse spots' feature on the main page of the site. This is currently found in the bottom right of that page. toi can click a channel titre (for instance, 'Pets & Animals') and then scroll through the different spots in that channel, ou toi can get a liste of the most populaire spots, ou toi can liste just the pending spots.
Fan of a spot
Once toi find a spot that matches your interest, toi can add yourself as a fan of that spot. To do so, click the link at the upper right of the page, below the link to your profil and above the 'banner' for that spot. The page will refresh immediately with toi as a fan of that spot. Now if toi click the 'my profile' link, toi will see your profile, which will include that spot, as well as a running liste of récent mises à jour made to 'your' spots (the spots for which toi are a fan).
Fan of another user
As toi browse the site, toi will either find Friends and family toi know, ou you'll just notice other users who are posting liens that match your interests. toi may say that toi are a fan of another user. To do so, click on the user's name ou portrait picture. This will take toi to that user's profile. If toi want to explore a little plus of what this user has done on the site, toi can select 'activity' in the haut, retour au début navigation bar. The module on the right will refresh with a liste of the liens that the user has added to the site, with the ability to also liste the videos, images, comments, posts to fora, questions and soapbox articles that user has entered/created. Once you've satisfied yourself that toi want to add yourself as a fan, find the box labeled 'about me' on the left side of the user's profil page, which contains the user's portrait picture, whatever biographical information the user has decided to include and a number of quick links. One of these is 'Add to fan List'. Click this link to liste yourself as a fan of the user.
Ratings
Please rate content whenever toi have a reaction to it, positive ou negative. At the moment, toi can rate videos, links, soapbox articles and images (remember, when we speak of content in general, we refer to all of these types of content as 'links'). When toi look at any of these things, you'll see a row of five grey circles with “rate this link” written across them. Click on these to rate the link in question, on a five étoile, star scale of 1 ('garbage') to 5 ('awesome!'), moving from left to right. It cannot be stressed enough how important ratings are, since many lists of links, et cetera use ratings as a major part of the algorithm to determine how they are displayed. In addition, the system of médailles is completely based on ratings. If toi want your content to be recognized ou if toi want to appreciate the content that others have posted, the best thing toi can do it rate that content!
Favorites
As toi find liens that toi particularly enjoy, ou that toi want to be able to find again quickly, toi can save them to your liste of favori links. To add a link to your favorites, simply click the 'save' button right under the ratings circles. To look up your liste of favorites, go to your profil page. Your favoris are listed in the left, right under the 'about me' box. par default, the favoris are organized in reverse chronological order, with the link toi added to your favoris liste most recently listed at the top. If toi click the link 'more favorites', toi can choose to liste your favoris alphabetically par titre as an alternative.
Sharing
If toi find some content that toi think someone else will really like, there are two handy ways to send them a link to that content in e-mail. In each spot, in the upper right (just under the long horizontal image (called the spot's 'banner'), you'll see a link labeled 'invite friend'. Click that to fill out a form that will send an e-mail message to your friend inviting them to use that particular spot. Note: since this article was originally written, this feature has been expanded to track the number of new users who have registered on fanpop from your invitations. So while the invitation is primarily a way to get others to see a spot toi like, it is also serving double-duty as a way to track how toi have contributed to the increase of Fanpop's registered users.
The seconde way to share fanpop content is to click the link labeled “Share this Link” (or 'Share Video' in the case of videos). This will also bring up a form, which is identical to the précédant form except that the message sent to your friend will contain the url to the link, rather than to the spot.
Report
Sometimes, even on a wonderful site like this one, there can be problems. There are two ways to rapporter such problems. First, if there is a problem with a spot (it's obscene, it violates fanpop's terms of use, ou it duplicates an existing spot), click the 'report' link in the upper right of the spot (a little red flag just under the spot's banner). toi then are donné a number of choices for what to report: the spot is either inappropriate, offensive, miscategorized (for example, if the Pirates of the Caribbean spot was listed in the télévision channel – it's not TV, so it shouldn't be there), ou duplicates a précédant spot. If, on the other hand, a link is not working, toi should rapporter that link. The way to rapporter a problem with a link is to click the grey flag just under the ratings circles, and then select which type of problem it is: spam, outdated (if the link is to some event that has come and gone), broken (if the link doesn't work), miscategorized (the link was put in the wrong spot) ou inappropriate. In either case, toi may instead choose to select 'Don't Report' to annuler the problem report.
Here's liens to other parts of the guide for your quick reference:
* link
* 1: link
* 2: link.
* 3: link
* 4: Picks: this is the generic name both for the vote questions that toi see on the site and for the réponses toi can pick to that question. Papa has created a link.
* 5: link
* 6:
link
* 7: link
toi may also want to see:
* link feature
* link
Covered in this article:
Finding spots
Fans of spots and users
Ratings
Favorites
Sharing
Reporting
Finding a spot
There are three primary ways to find spots that fit your interests, which is really the whole point of the site. The first (examples are marked with "1" in the illustration) is par lire the lists on the main page of the site ('fanpop home'): it's entirely possible that some content displayed there is of interest to you, whether it be a spotlit spot, a question, an image, a video, a forum, ou even a spot associated with one of the fans featured on the main page. In general, every time a spot name is listed anywhere on the site, it is a clickable link which will take toi to that spot. A slight exception is the name of a spot in the "recent images" section, which will take toi to that image in the spot, rather than to the main page for that spot (just as if you'd clicked on the thumbnail of the picture).
The seconde way to find a spot (marked with a "2" in the illustration) is par using the chercher function. On every page of the site there is a box in which toi can type key words and then click a chercher button to look for content that matches those words. The chercher will try to find spots which match the words toi enter. Note: when we talk about any content on the site other than the spots themselves (soapbox articles like this one, images, questions & picks, fora, et cetera), we refer to them generically as 'links'. When toi use the chercher function, toi may also find liens that match your chercher terms. chercher results are divided into those two categories: spots, and links, so if you're looking for a spot, you'll find that listed first. The liens are listed in the chercher results below the first five spots listed. The liste of link results have icones that represent the type of link: images, videos, et cetera, but they are all grouped in the same section. chercher results can take plus than one page, so if toi don't see the spot ou link toi want, toi may click the 'more results' link (if available) to liste another page of chercher results of that type (spots ou links).
Note that the chercher is a simple search, however, and does not recognize boolean expressions. That means that +”Kaiju Godzilla” +”cat monster” +video will get the same results as Kaiju cat monster video Kaiju Godzilla, as an example. In addition, the chercher will look for each of the words toi type separately, so the chercher results would be the same for cat video Godzilla Kaiju monster. This means that, for our example chercher above, in addition to getting Godzilla in the results, toi might also get results of 'Some aléatoire plant on a pole', 'Cat says a-ha!' and 'monster truck rally video'. The results are organized in order of accuracy of match, however, so a video of Godzilla fighting a cat monster (if there is one) would come first. If there isn't one, you'll see a message "We couldn't find any exact matches", followed par a liste of partial matches.
The third way to find spots that match your interests (marked with a "3" in the illustration, above) is to use the 'Browse spots' feature on the main page of the site. This is currently found in the bottom right of that page. toi can click a channel titre (for instance, 'Pets & Animals') and then scroll through the different spots in that channel, ou toi can get a liste of the most populaire spots, ou toi can liste just the pending spots.
Fan of a spot
Once toi find a spot that matches your interest, toi can add yourself as a fan of that spot. To do so, click the link at the upper right of the page, below the link to your profil and above the 'banner' for that spot. The page will refresh immediately with toi as a fan of that spot. Now if toi click the 'my profile' link, toi will see your profile, which will include that spot, as well as a running liste of récent mises à jour made to 'your' spots (the spots for which toi are a fan).
Fan of another user
As toi browse the site, toi will either find Friends and family toi know, ou you'll just notice other users who are posting liens that match your interests. toi may say that toi are a fan of another user. To do so, click on the user's name ou portrait picture. This will take toi to that user's profile. If toi want to explore a little plus of what this user has done on the site, toi can select 'activity' in the haut, retour au début navigation bar. The module on the right will refresh with a liste of the liens that the user has added to the site, with the ability to also liste the videos, images, comments, posts to fora, questions and soapbox articles that user has entered/created. Once you've satisfied yourself that toi want to add yourself as a fan, find the box labeled 'about me' on the left side of the user's profil page, which contains the user's portrait picture, whatever biographical information the user has decided to include and a number of quick links. One of these is 'Add to fan List'. Click this link to liste yourself as a fan of the user.
Ratings
Please rate content whenever toi have a reaction to it, positive ou negative. At the moment, toi can rate videos, links, soapbox articles and images (remember, when we speak of content in general, we refer to all of these types of content as 'links'). When toi look at any of these things, you'll see a row of five grey circles with “rate this link” written across them. Click on these to rate the link in question, on a five étoile, star scale of 1 ('garbage') to 5 ('awesome!'), moving from left to right. It cannot be stressed enough how important ratings are, since many lists of links, et cetera use ratings as a major part of the algorithm to determine how they are displayed. In addition, the system of médailles is completely based on ratings. If toi want your content to be recognized ou if toi want to appreciate the content that others have posted, the best thing toi can do it rate that content!
Favorites
As toi find liens that toi particularly enjoy, ou that toi want to be able to find again quickly, toi can save them to your liste of favori links. To add a link to your favorites, simply click the 'save' button right under the ratings circles. To look up your liste of favorites, go to your profil page. Your favoris are listed in the left, right under the 'about me' box. par default, the favoris are organized in reverse chronological order, with the link toi added to your favoris liste most recently listed at the top. If toi click the link 'more favorites', toi can choose to liste your favoris alphabetically par titre as an alternative.
Sharing
If toi find some content that toi think someone else will really like, there are two handy ways to send them a link to that content in e-mail. In each spot, in the upper right (just under the long horizontal image (called the spot's 'banner'), you'll see a link labeled 'invite friend'. Click that to fill out a form that will send an e-mail message to your friend inviting them to use that particular spot. Note: since this article was originally written, this feature has been expanded to track the number of new users who have registered on fanpop from your invitations. So while the invitation is primarily a way to get others to see a spot toi like, it is also serving double-duty as a way to track how toi have contributed to the increase of Fanpop's registered users.
The seconde way to share fanpop content is to click the link labeled “Share this Link” (or 'Share Video' in the case of videos). This will also bring up a form, which is identical to the précédant form except that the message sent to your friend will contain the url to the link, rather than to the spot.
Report
Sometimes, even on a wonderful site like this one, there can be problems. There are two ways to rapporter such problems. First, if there is a problem with a spot (it's obscene, it violates fanpop's terms of use, ou it duplicates an existing spot), click the 'report' link in the upper right of the spot (a little red flag just under the spot's banner). toi then are donné a number of choices for what to report: the spot is either inappropriate, offensive, miscategorized (for example, if the Pirates of the Caribbean spot was listed in the télévision channel – it's not TV, so it shouldn't be there), ou duplicates a précédant spot. If, on the other hand, a link is not working, toi should rapporter that link. The way to rapporter a problem with a link is to click the grey flag just under the ratings circles, and then select which type of problem it is: spam, outdated (if the link is to some event that has come and gone), broken (if the link doesn't work), miscategorized (the link was put in the wrong spot) ou inappropriate. In either case, toi may instead choose to select 'Don't Report' to annuler the problem report.
Here's liens to other parts of the guide for your quick reference:
* link
* 1: link
* 2: link.
* 3: link
* 4: Picks: this is the generic name both for the vote questions that toi see on the site and for the réponses toi can pick to that question. Papa has created a link.
* 5: link
* 6:
link
* 7: link
toi may also want to see:
* link feature
* link
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Have a fantastic day!!
Warmest Regards,
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