Is there a tutorial on how to use this forum?

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Hm, possibly. Though it can be added manually to any user by a mod. There aren't many default pick-able options anyway, so its usually manually added if people ask.

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Gotcha. Good to know. If anymore questions come up, I'll ask them here I suppose.

I may edit the first post with Q & A style formatting if you do intend to use this in the future.

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I knew what the blue and white circles meant, but I didn't know I could click on them. What's this about the back button on the right?

I have always said:
"The difference between a PC n00b and a PC Master is the n00b is afraid that a wrong click will break something. The Master clicks everything trying to see what breaks, so he can fix it."

It's about the joy of figuring it out for yourself.

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Not everyone has time for that. They'd rather be fixing their Arch installation than figuring out how a forum works.

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Really? If one can install Arch, they can probably operate a forum. Though maybe not at a expert level. :slight_smile:

Your point is valid though, everybody is different. I like to dive in to explore and experiment. Others may prefer to complete a comprehensive tutorial before they even start. An instruction manual might help those inexperienced members.

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I totally agree with the Arch / forum notion. I rebuilt the engine on my mother's car, new cylinder head, timing set, all kinds of other serious internal engine stuff, and for the life of me I can't figure out what way the stupid plastic shield on the bottom goes on! Engine runs fine, shield still in the back of the car.

Thank you for posting this. I was going to start a similar thread a while back, then I figured out how to do what I needed and didn't care about the rest enough to start a new thread.

Now my question is how do people make those things that look like quotes, but they are links to sites and pull data from them? For instance Steam or Amazon, the title will be pulled from the page as well as the description. I'm sure I have more questions that I have already forgotten. The learning curve here is rather steep, luckily I can get by with very little.

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Its called a onebox, it's automatically made, it won't I do all links, but will do most. Add a link to your post on a new line in it's own.

Example

Example

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kuiper_belt
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This also list a few of the lesser known features

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