FORUMS TOUR
How to Log In
1. Click the Log in link.
2. The first time you use the forums, you will need to join. It only takes a few seconds to register, and you can authenticate using the forum's system, Facebook, or Google+.
3. Once you join, please change your display name to your Viki username (if it's not your Viki username already). To do this, click your account name in the upper right corner:
Then, enter your Viki username in the Display name box and click "Change." From here, you can also change your avatar, email, and password.
Primary Forum Elements
(1) Post box is used for starting new moots (a.k.a. topics).
A (2) moot consists of the seed post and all the replies to it.
(3) Replies only have the body text and no title.
(4) The reply box is shown under the replies.
(5) Channels are the various available forums.
A (2) moot consists of the seed post and all the replies to it.
(3) Replies only have the body text and no title.
(4) The reply box is shown under the replies.
(5) Channels are the various available forums.
Formatting
ITALICS AND BOLDING
Text can be italicized by adding “_“ at the beginning and end of the text to be italicized. You can also bold single words by adding “*“ at the beginning and end of the word to be bolded.
MONOSPACING
Code snippets and other bits of text are rendered as monospaced text when placed inside backtics ().
EMOTICONS
Following emoticons are supported (i.e., converted into black and white vector graphics):
:) :D :O :* :| :( :P :/ :'( 8) >:( >:O <3
Text can be italicized by adding “_“ at the beginning and end of the text to be italicized. You can also bold single words by adding “*“ at the beginning and end of the word to be bolded.
MONOSPACING
Code snippets and other bits of text are rendered as monospaced text when placed inside backtics ().
EMOTICONS
Following emoticons are supported (i.e., converted into black and white vector graphics):
:) :D :O :* :| :( :P :/ :'( 8) >:( >:O <3
QUOTING
You can quote (ie. italicize and grey out) a text passage by selecting it and clicking the quote icon, which will move the quoted text in the text box. Text quoted in this manner will be linked to the original text, if it’s loaded on the page.
You can also manually quote text by inserting > at the beginning of each quoted paragraph.
SYNTAX HIGHLIGHT
A block of code can automatically be formatted by adding ‐‐‐ at the beginning and the end of a code block:
You can also manually indicate the programming language:
There are over 50 recognized languages.
LINKING
Links are automatically formatted to hide the “http://“ part, and for some of the most popular websites, to replace the name of the site with an icon with the site’s logo.
Links are automatically formatted to hide the “http://“ part, and for some of the most popular websites, to replace the name of the site with an icon with the site’s logo.
Content is Forever
Posts cannot be edited. After posting, there is a time frame of 2 minutes and 42 seconds during which you can remove your post. The text will then return to the edit box for modifying and reposting, if you like. Once the time has passed, your post will become permanent.
Forum Administrators cannot edit posts either, but they can delete posts at any time.
Forum Administrators cannot edit posts either, but they can delete posts at any time.