Clicking on just the tag will take you to the page of the most recent diaries with that tag, showing names of kosaks who write them, and those who follow the tag.
For example, you can hover on #DKGroups in the taglist of this diary you’re reading, and click the heart solid to get future diaries in this series automatically sent to you and/or you can click on that tag itself to see previous diaries like this. Or just click here.
To reach your Activity Stream page, one route is by clicking on your own name up near the top right hand corner of the screen you’re looking at right now. That’ll get you a drop-down menu this illustration shows.
Your Activity Stream is the 7th link down.
Most of the earlier diaries in this series have more how-to information where groups are concerned. And the three directories listed in the yellow KEY TO SYMBOLS box have more as well.
If you still haven’t had enough (!) you can click on tutorials and you can read up at the official HELPDESK KNOWLEDGE BASE.
There are also several friendly, regularly “meeting” open-thread groups where you can usually post a comment asking a question about how-to, and usually there’ll be someone there who can answer or can help you find where to get answers (altho’ there may be a time lag of a few minutes to a few hours, or even a day or two, before you get a reply — we live in anxious times right now and that can cause delays). Some of those groups are:
■ MOT - Morning Open Thread appx 3a.m. leftkost, 6a.m. east every morning
■ Street Prophets appx 1pm leftkost, 4 pm east daily, Brunch All Day Sundays & Saturdays (?) starting 7:30a.m.pst
■ Kitchen Table Kibitzing 5:30 pm leftkost, 8:30 pm east, every evening
■ Top Comments 7pm leftkost, 4pm east daily.
■ Overnight News Digest politics, art, science, culture. 9pm leftkost, 12midnight east daily.
■ New Day Cafe 7:30 a.m leftkost, 10:30a.m. east daily.
■ Cheers and Jeers series, posted by Bill in Portland Monday-Thursday approx 4:30am leftkost, 7:30am east.
<big><big>If you’d like to write and post diaries under a particular group’s banner,</big></big> you’ll need to request to join (and learn how to queue your diary drafts to groups you're In, to publish'em there, and so on). Each group’s admins have their own ideas, of course, about whether to invite more members, which sometimes depends on what kind of work you’ve posted on your own. So sometimes when you send message/kosmail/ to request to join a group, it’s a good idea to include a link or two to diaries you’ve already posted on topics of interest to that group.
If you haven’t posted diaries like that yet, you might try doing one first, and then you can kosmail a courteous reblog request —with the title and link of your diary included in the body of the message— and at the same time express your interest in being a member of their group.
<big><big>WARNING: using a group’s Send Message to Group link will NOT generate a New Message alert at anyone’s blogview envelope icon nor in anyone’s Welcome Back box.</big></big>. That means that getting a reply that way depends on how often an admin & or editor there checks her/his kosmail inbox — your message will be in all their DK inboxes, they just won’t know until they happen to look there. So, if you send the group a kosmail but it brings no timely reply, or if you’re in a rush, find your way to the group’s Members page like this: ■ Looking at the group’ blogview page, such as the one below, click on the white button with 4 or 5 lines sketched on it just to the right of the orange button with monitor-screen sketch….
...that’ll take you to the group’s diary list/posting history page… and look for the MEMBERS link/button just below the words “right permissions” in the boxed explanation {about the queue, which you don’t need yet) and click on MEMBERS...
...which gets you to a page roughly like this. The top few listings are the group’s admins (administrators) — if you see one whose “Last Diary” (i.e., most recently posted diary) was within day or 2, that admin is likely still around to reply to comments, and will therefore be able to see….
...a new message alert on her/his blogview page or WelcomeBack box if you click on his/her name to reach h/h profile page and click on the Send Message link there to get in touch.
If none of the admins has posted a diary recently, click on each of them one by one to see how recently s/he’s commented, because if within a couple of days then likely to be onsite replying to replies to comments! The private (as distinct from group) kosmail/message you send will generate an alert to let h/h know there’s a message waiting.
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