Advanced tips for using AP 101
These are just a few of the things I have found that can enhance your AP experience. I present them here, for I have run across some people who are not aware of these things, and some of these I have only recently been made aware of.
TIP #1 -- YOU CAN GIVE OUT MORE THAN FOUR APPLAUDS PER DAY IF YOU HAVE THE POINTS AVAILABLE - There are many who think that you only get to applaud four works each day. AP gives you four FREE applauds to give away each day, but you can keep applauding works as long as you have enough points to do so. Each applause will deduct seven points from the total that you have. You can applaud as often as you can afford, until you run out of points.
TIP #2 -- USE THE "CLAPPING HANDS" ON THE COMMENTS - When viewing comments that are posted on a poem's page, you will see a set of "clapping hands" next to the name of the poet who made the comment. (It may look like a feather or a cloud to you.) You can click on this set of "hands" to applaud the comment. More than one applaud icon on a comment means the comment has been applauded. One's comments can be applauded many times. This works if it is a comment on your work and it works for comments that others have made on another poets works!
Here is an example of when this would come in handy if it is a comment on your work:
I have heard some poets say that they only got to applaud one comment out of all comments that had been listed when they logged on, for they could not get back to the others. - When signing on to AP you are presented with a screen which lists any comments you have gotten since your last log on. You have the option here to applaud each comment using "Applaud this comment?" at the bottom of the notification. Once you applaud a comment you are whisked to the poem where the comment is posted. This has been a problem for some if there are multiple comments you want to applaud, for Internet Explorer will often not let you go "back" to the initial log-in page so you can see the list of comments you have recently gotten. (If you are using Mozilla Firefox as a browser you likely are not having this problem.)
TO USE TIP #2 - On the "messages" page, go to "[System messages]" to bring up a listing of all the comments you have gotten. You can go to each on an individual basis and applaud them by using the "clapping hands" as described above.
Here are some examples of how this could come in handy if it is a comment made by a poet on another poet's work:
Some days we do not have enough time to comment properly on enough works to give away our four free applauds, and we may not want to leave an applause without a comment, for we may come back later and do so. One way to keep these free applauds from being wasted is to find some good comments and applaud the commenting author.
The more free applauds that are used, the more points that go into the system, therefore encouraging the "economy" of AP. Every free applaud you do not use is seven points wasted that no one will ever see. By giving those free applauds away, you enable the recipient to applaud more people, or feature their work.
There are many great comments out there, and some deserve to be applauded more than once. This should also help (be it in a small way) to encourage better comments. In all the time I have been on AP I cannot recall seeing a comment with more than two "clapping hands" next to it, it would be interesting to see some comments with many applauds.
TIP #3 -- JUMP TO A POET'S AUTHOR PAGE STRAIGHT FROM THE MESSAGE PAGE - You can click straight to a poet's author page from an IM on the Message page by clicking the COLON at the end of their name. Saves all kinds of time and effort!
TIP #4 -- YOU CAN VIEW THE CATEGORY OF A POEM IN THE FEATURE BOX BY PLACING YOUR MOUSE OVER THE TITLE AND WAITING FOR THE POP UP DESCRIPTION
TIP #5 -- IF YOU ARE PASTING YOUR POEMS FROM A WORD PROCESSOR USE "NOTEPAD" Sometimes if you are pasting your works from a word processor, certain parts of the document will come out garbled on your poem page. To keep this from happening, paste your work into "notepad" (this program comes free with every version of Windows). Then copy from "notepad" and paste into the text box as you normally would.
TIP #6 -- BACK UP YOUR POEMS - You can easily make a back up copy of your poems by going to your author's page and select "Print my works?".
On the page where all your poems are listed go to "edit" then "select all" then "copy". Now paste into a word processor and save. Make sure that if the words "Next items" appear at the top of your list of poems to click on it and copy all of those too.
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Many thanks to Maatkara who showed me Tips # 2, 3, 4, and 5. Without her information I would still be in the dark, and her contribution is much appreciated! Thanks!!
A note about the Firefox browser - I have found that it makes navigating through AP much smoother and easier, especially if you use the "back" button a lot, and would like to be able to use it effectively on AP. If you are a gold member and you use "enriched text" in your poems, you will still have to use Internet Explorer, for Firefox does not support that option. This is not a commercial for either browser, use what you like.
None of this information is copied from the AP help files directly, and I claim no copyright on it. Feel free to copy and distribute it in any form you wish. Any applause received will be used to re-feature this in the future.
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None of this information is copied from the AP help files directly, and I claim no copyright on it. Feel free to copy and distribute it in any form you wish. Any applause received will be used to re-feature this in the future.
Important tips to enhance your AP experience.
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I added this to my list, "Helpful Columns", Pres...'cause you are a helpful lil' poemy thing, ain'tcha??? 
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Thanks so much for the very useful tips.
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Thank you Presence and Maatkara both. You are angels s.
From Lyndon of Winklings. I think I found out most of these by stumbling. Sometimes it pays to stumble as long as one knows from where to where. lol.
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Thanks, friend, for both the effort of service you have made here and the pointer to its existence. Definite worth the applause it receives.
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With sincere appreciation and gratitude!!
Thank you so much for this great informative well written page I'm delighted you invited me here to learn all of this information some I already understood their meanings and others not at all now I see how helpful our applause are
Thank you again Wishing you a glorious day!
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Well first of all I am going to thank Maatkara for referring me to this page. This was very informative. I actually learnt the true purpose of those clapping hands. No more random clicking for me. I often don't use all of my free applauds cause I go on alot of trips and I am not aware of when the applauds are reissued, time zone changes and all. You did a good job and for that you deserve an applause -
Thanks for sharing this!
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(If you are using Mozilla Firefox as a browser you likely are not having this problem.) YES! I love Mozilla.
Will tip #5 STOP all my ' in my work from turning into the dreaded ? I hope so will try this if so then you're a genius. It's sooo frustrating.
I learned some new things in this column; excellent work. THANK YOU sooo much
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the more I search thru the sight the more I am learning
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Presence, Great Job!! I found this helpful and I feel as if I've been on AP for ages. The "newbies" will find this extremly useful.
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This is great... I'm bookmarking! If you discover anything more, more 'tips', please update, will you?!
THANKS FOR THIS!
--Jocelyn
(You're getting one of those free applauses. )
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Great idea! I bet there are a bunch of poets who will benefit from this knowledge. Thanks for taking the time to help everyone.
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I have only now seen your question, forgive the delay. To find out how to make all the smiley go to the "help" tab at the top of the screen (you may have to scroll up to it). The help tab is all the way to the right.
Now click on "Help - FAQ". The first question in the faq is "How do I make the smileys?" click on the word-link "here"
You will now see a page that will give you all the info you need.
The faq has all kinds of good information in it, you might peek around while you are there.
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Very useful!
Thanks a lot for your tips. Seems like this is where all the spare applauses go. I have one question: how do you make smileys and roses in your comments? -
good stuff to have in the back of all of our minds. good stuff. thanks for posting it for all us new people. i already knew most of it, but i can come back if i forget it
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thanks for the useful information
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Some great tipes here. I've figured out a few of them on my own, especially the pasting from Microsoft (although that was on a different site). Thanks for sharing.
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I feel i should add that while firefox greatly enhances the allpoetry experience, it's not compatible with the chatroom.
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danke
well, you learn something new everyday, now dont you? thank you for this information, some if it i already knew, but some of it i can see coming in quite handy in the future.
thanks again!
kill my insides
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Being one who is new and not up to speed with a lot of things, this was a great help.....thank you so much for your time to be more informative and I applaud you.....thanks.
TUI
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Ooh, this was great!! A lot of these questions that I've been roughly figuring out have been answered, and that tip number two was -really- annoying me. I'm so glad you've helped answer them, and I hope that this helps all others too!
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This was all very helpful and I only knew about half of it! Thanks for the time you used and the effort of spreading your knowledge to the rest of AP users. I am grateful.
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A lot of useful information, thanks. ps. Trying using "FOR" a little less often. -D
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Thanks for clearing that up. I should have remembered the feature box but have never used it. Good suggestion for the philanthropists out there too.
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Thomas X Ling - Good question. The end all for points is the feature box. For once you spend them there they are gone. Those that I know who amass a lot of points through comments or contests do not hold fast to them.
Some hold contests - one recent contest gave out over 2000 points to various winners.
Some use them for applauding others - It is easy to burn up 250 points in a day if you are just casually reading and applauding.
Some give points to poets so that they can feature their work or they feature it for them - here again, it does not take long to burn up points on a feature at 17 points per click.
I'm sure there are some poets out there just collecting points to see how many they can get, or it may give them a sense of power or something.
If anyone has too many points, and they don't know what to do with them, for goodness sake, give them to a younger poet who is just starting out and who is creating good work. Let them feature it and show it off. -
thanks for the tips..good idea to post these.
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Question. You say that giving out all the applauds injects points into the system, encouraging the AP economy. Not being miserly, but what happens to the points in general? I mean, eventually you must get to a point where everyone has more points than they can get rid of. (Unless the expansion of the AP universe is accelerating?) Anyone, answer my question please!
Good tips. Didn't know about number 4 at all!
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This is extremely helpful and clear to understand-- No confusion!!! Thank-you very much for sharing!!! It is greatly appreciated!!!
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Hi, this is great for the young but also for the not so young, we learn from each other every day, you have a great idea here, all the best a super idea,hugs Di
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thanx a million
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I don't wish to make it sound like your efforts are worthless. A lot of the things you were saying in your post wasn't that hard to figure out if you have any common sense. There were a few good points up there and I do say thank you for sharing them with us. Please do not take my criticism as a flame against you it is just an opinion and mine wasn't meant to make anyone feel bad. thank you for sharing your knowledge with us and keep up the good writes.
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Good advice my friend ... I will bookmark this since I tend to forget good advice
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Though I knew much of this before, it really is a great resource for new members as well as the not- so- frequent members. I, myself, am a loser that is here for hours upon hours each day, but I know that if I wasn't.. well, this would have surely helped me out.
So, thanks for writing up this very informative column. Undoubtedly, it will help many poets out there.
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Beautiful descriptions. Sorry that some of the features are so hidden, but thanks for helping to popularize them!
You can also type /name into the chatterbox to go to that poet's page. And 'comments on me' on the settings page shows you the latest comments.
Also, firefox users can still use rich-text, they just have to type in the html tags themselves (so you have to know html).
Love the push on applauding comments, I sometimes go on a rampage and applaud 20 comments to try and encourage people Comments are very important!
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Well written and many thanks,
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knowledge is power? wait a minute, you're right! what the hell am i doing here?!
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Yep, needed saying! I found out some of those by myself, others by IMing mods and learnt others here! I might add that you get to the main AP homepage by clicking on the logo at the top. I will applaud, since its encouraged Keep writing
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I am one who has becomer so exasperated in losing messages. i tend to get 5 - 10 comments each morning when I og on. I have been carefully writing down everything to try to get back to answer them all. I know I have missed many.
Thank you for this information. I am, and always will be, a "newbie"...old dogs learn new tricks with difficulty. smiles -
There is some very helpful information here. And thanks to "Tip #3", my biggest frustration here at AllPoetry has been ended by a colon! Thanks!
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Very well done.
Where were you a year ago when I needed you?
Excellent helpful column.
~ crisstiena
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Thankyou very much.. you have enlightened me. And many others so I see ^^. Well done, and thanks for posting this its really useful and its always good to share knowledge. . JESSxxx
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Thanks for taking the time to post these helpful hints, some really useful info. here. tashaxx
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Thanks a lot for so much insight.... really appreciate poets who help others.
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Some of these I'd vagely worked out myself ~ others I was completely in the dark, had asked for help, and stiil not received a meaningfull reply. Thank you for your efforts.
A task well done.
Tara
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Thanks so much for the info.I'm certain it will save time.
And will help me out so much. Thanks again!
Ashley
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Thank you so much for posting these tips, they will be most helpful and save time.
~Katie~
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Whoa--thanks a bunch! I espically liked tip #3 about going from the IM page to the author page, saves a bunch of time! Thanks again!
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Thank-you so much for the helpful handy tips!
Bonnie
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I bookmarked this! Thanks!
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Thanks for taking the time to write these helpful hints out!
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Thank you
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This is helpful!! I find also taht FlashPeak's SlimBrowser makes AP a more friendly place to navigate through! Great info, and am glad a friend pointed it out to me. Will be bookmarking this page!
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excellent informative column! very educational and helpful. I've been a member here for years, and was a Mod Director for a year, and I didn't know all these things. thanks for enlightening us! I applaud you!
~travis
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thanks
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Awesome, very helpful ^^
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i never knew about the message thing! THANKS SO MUCH XD now i dont have to copy and paste.
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I think it's really cool that someone who is not a paying member has got a syndicated column! Fantastic! I was beginning to think the syndicated malarky was all a bit biased. But no, not anymore! Your column was very informative, even though I had known about those things already. But, I only figured some of those things out after being on here for nearly four years!
Wonderful column.
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For gold members- you can use any font you want if you paste direct from a wordprocssor, but, as with Microsoft Word, you'll have to go back and clean up the code with Notepad to get rid of the garble. Note too that if the reader's computer does not have your fancy font, they will only see AP's default font! (boo-hoo!)
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this is a damn good column that uve written and i think that what u did by writing this column will most definately help out a great deal with those who aren't aware of things like that here on AP -
Well, and I thought I knew enough... thanks for enhancing our AP experience, Presence!
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Thanks - I always kinda wondered about the clapping hands on comments. :-) Great column!!
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I was sitting here reading this thinking, I know all this stuff, why am I even reading this article? So I can leave a nice comment? Maybe an applaud? And then I read further and went, Hey, I didn't know that! So I guess I was reading to be informed, which was the purpose! Now I have left you a nice long comment. One more thing though: Thank you very much for bringing this to everyone's attention, it's informative not only for the newbies, but the oldies who think they know it all already.
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Very helpful tips, thanks for taking the time to write this~!
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Thanks for this I learned Alot!!
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Thanks for this I didn't know all of the information, so thanks especially for your piece about putting my mouse above the featured poems to see the column, as I didn't know this
All the best,
Pozo
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nice to see regular members taking an activepart in making AP more user friendly. I applaud your efforts, this is a great resource for newer members and members not in the know...peace
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Very helpful column, Presence, and clearly explained! Well done!
~G
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Way-hey! This is really handy. Fair play for writing it. It helped me. Thanks.
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Very Helpful!
WOW! Im so happy with this. I didnt know like..any of these things. Especially not how to applaud a comment! Thanks for this handy bit of information. Its really great of you to do this, instead of keeping the info to yourself! Congrats, and thanks again!
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Firefox is nice, but I have the opposite experience from you. I find that AP is only built with IE in mind. This is why whenever I go to someone's poem and I tell them that their background and font are assaulting my eye, they always tell me, "But it looks fine on my computer!" Of course it looks fine -- because the fellows who coded AP were lazy. They only tested AP on IE. This is also why advanced functions can only work on IE.
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Thank you so much for the tips and sharing them with everybody. They will come in handy. thanks again.
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This is wonderful! thank you so much. I always wanted to know how to a[[laud a comment more than once. Now I know what those little feather things are.
s - joanne
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Tip #7-Write good poetry that isn't vague, but is still entertaining. Such activity shall provide you enough interest from other poets to gain attention.
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This was a great idea, and thanks. I think this will be helpful to others as well as me. Thanks for being so thoughtful. Athena
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THANKS 4 THE TIPS!!!!!!!!!
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That was great that you actually took the time to post and write up a help page. I am sure this is much appreciated and quite helpful among many
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Excellent column here. Thanks for posting it. I learned a lot from it.
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Good stuff, here. Much of this I was unaware of, despite being a member since January. Thanks for the tips.
peace
doug
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Thank you for taking the time to introduce these tips. I found them extremely helpful.
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Thanks Presence. Althouhg I had figured out much of this, there were a few new things. I will book mark this and keep it handy!
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This really helped me a lot. I also got some interesting yet trivial information about icons and smileys from somebody's author page. I bookmarked her and put her on my favorites because it was helpful too. I am 34 yrs old and I am proud to say I finally have online friends. Such the computer geek that I am that I most likely would buy the new Allpoetry T-shirt
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Thanks for this; immensely helpful.
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Hey, this is some good stuff to know. I've been on here for a couple monthes now, but there were a few things that I didn't know, so it's always good to learn something new! This information though will definitely be good for some new AP users that are just starting out.
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These are good tips as I have found that a lot of people do not know this. But it comes with time, learning all the fun exciting things that are known by "experienced" users. I think you have got a good start for a very helpful column. I figured out the colon thing from the IM by accident when I first came to AP, so this might be especially helpful for NEW users
Great and informative information.
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i'm new to AP and am still figuring things out. what a timely way to stumble upon this piece. hugs to your big heart for taking the time to pen all these great tips for us!
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Hey, you are good a person. You deserve like...a medal or something... Anyway, all of us relative noobs appreciate your advice.
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