[JaneYoung]

I was asked how to give a rep. This is what I said:

In each post on the right hand side are 4 icons. (I'm including the post # in that.) The 2nd one from the left is the scales. Click on that and it will provide a small screen where you can give positive, neutral, or negative. It is automatically set on neutral so you have to move it up for positive or down for negative. For a little while until you make more posts, the color of your reps that you give will be gray (the neutral color). After a few posts, they will turn green and will begin to count. I can explain uses for neutral or negative if you would like for me to.

I also talked about the spotlight feature and the icon used to alert mods:

The spotlight to the right of the scales is to spotlight a section of a post that you approve of and would like to see spotlit.
If you look up at the top of the page in CD, you'll see quotes. Those have been spotlit. If you follow them to the page icon on the left of the quote and click on that page, it will lead you to the post the quote is taken from.

To the right of the spotlight is a triangle. That is for spam, advertising, etc. Use that very sparingly and only if you are comfortable reporting a post. If you click that triangle and send a report, it goes to an e-mail that goes out to all of the moderators in that forum. That is why it must be used sparingly and correctly so we don't spam them with spam.

Jane