Navigating SE
I've been enjoying this blog for almost a year now, but I'm a complete dunce when it comes to utilizing features that people refer to in their comments. For instance, how do you access other people's profiles? How do you email someone or find out if that person would like to email? Where do you find the contests and how do you follow-up to see who won? Many of you will think this post is redundant, but I truly enjoy my time here, and want to take advantage of all the features available.
Thanks in advance for bringing me up to speed.
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19 Comments:
If you click on a poster's name, it will bring up a page that shows their recent posts and their profile. If they have their e-mail address in their profile, it usually means they are game for conversation. I don't really follow the contests, so I can't offer up any info on that.
izatryt at 2:55PM on 01/11/09
Thanks Iz. So simple and I'm so stupid. I shoulda guessed because our names are posted in blue - Dah!
Josdean at 3:14PM on 01/11/09
Alot of us are on Facebook too. Sadly, I too am a dunce navigationally.
If you have a Facebook page, tell us and we'll invite you to be our friend. We're nice. =)
carolrsfMISSESTEXAS at 3:15PM on 01/11/09
User Profiles
As Izatryt says, click on the name.
Example: http://www.seriouseats.com/user/profile/USERNAME
Email
We currently do not have a way for community members to contact each other via email via SE. We've created a group on Facebook if you'd like to interact off-site: Serious Eats Facebook Group
Contests
You can see all contest posts at this link—seriouseats.com/tags/contests
Winners appear here: seriouseats.com/contest-winners
Tags
At least on the blog posts on Serious Eats, the editors and contributors use tags to create an index of sorts. You'll see those tags at the bottom of each post.
Examples
seriouseats.com/tags/space
seriouseats.com/tags/Top Chef
seriouseats.com/tags/recipes/chicken
slice.seriouseats.com/tags/Chicago
Adam Kuban at 3:33PM on 01/11/09
I tried to join Facebook earlier, but it didn't like my email address. DH will fix it tonight. I will post here when I'm up and running. Would love to be Facebook friends!
Just found something else I didn't know how to do. Pick Favorites? What's that?
Josdean at 3:37PM on 01/11/09
@Josdean: You can "favorite" something, and it is filed away on your profile page: seriouseats.com/user/profile/Josdean/favorites
Adam Kuban at 3:40PM on 01/11/09
I'll join in Josdean. I'm totally untechable, but teachable. If you "favorite" something, it shows on your profile and you can access it from there. Maybe a post you started, like this one, or a recipe you'd like to save. Anything you'd like to revisit, and find easily without searching for it.
I find the contests on the home page, and if you click on "about" up at the top right of all pages, then go to the bottom right and click on "contest winners" - you won't have to remember the link. I was totally clueless about all of this and it took awhile before I understood how it all works. Phrases like "hijack a thread" put cold chills down my back, because I may have done exactly that, inadvertently. You're not alone! :-D
PerkyMac at 3:46PM on 01/11/09
@ Adam - Thanks for the clarification. Which kinda brings up another question/request. I see more and more new people on SE, but I bet there are many more who don't comment because they don't know the protocol.
It would be great if, when joining and filling out your profile, there was a way to access a list of navigational techniques, features, some general communication guidelines, the Facebook connection, etc.
If this already exists somewhere, I apologize. This is the only blog I consistantly visit, so I don't have on-line blogger experience.
Josdean at 3:49PM on 01/11/09
@josdean: That's a good idea. I think it's within our ability to make some sort of "Welcome/How to Navigate" page. Longtime users (and staff members) are so used to the navigation that we sometimes forget that there's a learning curve.
Adam Kuban at 3:52PM on 01/11/09
Thanks Perk! It's nice to know that there is a definite learning curve happening. Do I just go up to 'favorites' on my internet screen? I want it saved to SE, not my list of favorite web sites.
Josdean at 3:56PM on 01/11/09
@Josdean ~ If you favorite something. You will only see it on your personal profile page here on SE.
izatryt at 4:00PM on 01/11/09
@Josdean: Click the "Favorite This!" link at the bottom of a Talk topic, recipe, or SE blog post. See this illustration: How to 'Favorite' Something on Serious Eats
Adam Kuban at 4:08PM on 01/11/09
I'm learning so much!
carolrsfMISSESTEXAS at 4:09PM on 01/11/09
@ Adam - I never even NOTICED that little 'favorite' button at the end of the post! As MissesTexas said, I'm learning so much! Thanks for the info. I think it would be great if you could develop a welcome page. From the looks of the responses to this post, even some longtime users are clueless about certain things. Thanks for being so responsive!
Josdean at 4:34PM on 01/11/09
Thanks guys for all the info. I've only been around for a month, and I'm not very computer literate, so all this info has been a great help.
dmcavanagh at 5:26PM on 01/11/09
I am with you Josdean I am equally stumped, like I dont know how to move a recipe in a comment section so that people just need to click on it.
pjracz10 at 12:56AM on 01/12/09
@pjracz - I haven't even gotten that far, but I'm sure I'd probably screw up.
Josdean at 5:48PM on 01/12/09
@pjracz10: I'm confused. Are you asking how to link to a recipe in your comment?
Adam Kuban at 7:05PM on 01/12/09
Hurrah to Josdean for posting this thread. I have been looking through old threads looking for information on this very thing! I am not computer literate as I was born in the dark ages and the computer is still "one of the sweet mysteries of life" to me!
I am intimidated by guys like, "Simon," who posted on a thread about rotisserie chicken that the topic had already been covered and it wasn't too difficult to use a "search engine" - I know he must be irritated by this type of thing but there are those of us who seriously don't know what in the hell he is talking about! I promise him that we are trying to learn and if he could just be patient . . .
Another thing I have difficulty with is the "lingo" that is used - I am guessing that BF is "boyfriend" and OH is "other half" and someone else actually mentioned that IMHO is "in my humble opinion" (thank you for telling me!) but I am in the dark about other things, such as "DH", etc. In one of the old threads I read, someone mentioned that PerkyMac sent them a run down of that terminology - good on you, Perk, for being so current! I sure wouldn't mind a copy of that list.
bareneed at 2:36PM on 01/22/09