Dear all,
To maximise the benefit for everyone, and to protect the Forum against any possible comebacks, could everyone please be mindful of the following when quoting from external sources:
Quoting from a webpage: (copying and pasting content)
Please only use the minimum amount of quoted text/content needed to make your point on LTLF.
Quoting the ENTIRE article is often unhelpful and can fall foul of some copyright restrictions - especially if the original article was behind a paywall.
In every case, please ensure that you include a link to the original source as acknowledgement (and to allow interested users to read the whole original article at source)
See UK Gov Copyright information for more information.
Quoting from X (formerly Twitter)
Recent changes to Twitter's terms of use mean that unless you've got a Twitter account, you can't see an embedded tweet when it's posted on here.
Because of increasing numbers deserting X, it's been decided not to support X links directly any more because too many people can't see them.
Please post a screenshot of the thing you saw on X instead.
If it's a video, then X to MP4 download exists (search for X to MP4 download) and chuck the video onto imgur and link it from there please so all can see it.
Including external links (e.g. YouTube, Instagram etc) - just use the "share" options on the source, copy the link, and paste that URL into your post on LTLF, and the forum software should do the rest...
Problems? There's a couple of threads in "Care in the Community" that are very helpful, otherwise please ask.
Thanks!
To maximise the benefit for everyone, and to protect the Forum against any possible comebacks, could everyone please be mindful of the following when quoting from external sources:
Quoting from a webpage: (copying and pasting content)
Please only use the minimum amount of quoted text/content needed to make your point on LTLF.
Quoting the ENTIRE article is often unhelpful and can fall foul of some copyright restrictions - especially if the original article was behind a paywall.
In every case, please ensure that you include a link to the original source as acknowledgement (and to allow interested users to read the whole original article at source)
See UK Gov Copyright information for more information.
Quoting from X (formerly Twitter)
Recent changes to Twitter's terms of use mean that unless you've got a Twitter account, you can't see an embedded tweet when it's posted on here.
Because of increasing numbers deserting X, it's been decided not to support X links directly any more because too many people can't see them.
Please post a screenshot of the thing you saw on X instead.
If it's a video, then X to MP4 download exists (search for X to MP4 download) and chuck the video onto imgur and link it from there please so all can see it.
Including external links (e.g. YouTube, Instagram etc) - just use the "share" options on the source, copy the link, and paste that URL into your post on LTLF, and the forum software should do the rest...
Problems? There's a couple of threads in "Care in the Community" that are very helpful, otherwise please ask.
Thanks!