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Review Tutorial

Learn: How To Write A Review How To Edit A Review What Makes A Great Review? Can I Review My Own Products or Business I Am Connected To?     How To Write A Review Navigate to the page of the item you would like to review. Click "Write a Review"  There is a link near the top for this, or a button under the user reviews. The review creator has a few different fields.  In order to submit your review, you MUST fill in a Review Title, an Overall star rating, and a Full Review.  You are more than welcome to add Pros, Cons, other star... read more

Messaging Tutorial

Important Notice: If you receive a private message notification in your email, do not reply to the email.  Click the 'Reply' button to reply via your message center. Learn: Send Private Messages Access And Manage Your Message Center Change Your Messaging Notification Preferences   Send Private Messages Occasionally you may want to converse with another user privately.  There are several places from which you may send a private message.   From A User's Profile: Navigate to a user's profile page. Underneath that user's avatar, you... read more

Following And Followers

What is Following? Following is like subscribing to another member; you'll receive notifications of their activity in public areas.   How do I follow another member? To follow a member, visit their profile page and click the "Follow Member" link under their avatar. You will be able to "unfollow" someone in the same place.   What will I be notified about? When following another member, you'll be notified about many of the same things that appear in their activity feed: replying to threads, writing reviews, and other actions they take around the... read more

Article Tutorial

Learn how to: Create A New Article Edit An Existing article Revert An Article To A Previous Version Report An Article     Create A New Article Navigate to the Article home. On the main article page, you will see several tabs - locate the section you would like to contribute to.   Within that article section, you will see a button to create a new article.  If you do not see this button, you do not have the ability to create articles in this section. Click the "Create Article" button. A popover will open for you to title your... read more

Overclocked Accounts

  • by Chipp

Overclocked Membership Need a little more out of your account here at Overclock.net? Now you can upgrade to the "Overclocked" package and receive the following: Overclocked.net Email Address - yourname@overclocked.net - Webmail URL: mail.overclocked.net - Gmail interface - POP3 Email Access Custom Member Title - You will have the ability to change your title to anything (within the forum rules) Ability to Remove Advertisements - You will gain an option in your forum settings to turn off all standard banner and box advertisements Pricing 1 Month = $5.00 3 Months =... read more

Support

FAQ & Tutorials Start with the FAQ and see if your question is answered there.      Your questions may also be answered in one of our Tutorials: Community Profile Tutorial - learn how to edit your Community Profile, edit Your List, change your avatar, edit your Account Details, and change your password.  Discussion Forum Tutorial - learn how to start a new thread, reply to a post, reply with a quotation, edit your post, report posts, etc. Article Tutorial - learn what Articles are, how to create a new article, edit an existing collaborative... read more

Discussion Forum Tutorial

Learn how to: Use the Forums Start A New Thread Reply To A Post Reply With A Quotation Edit Your Post Rate Posts Report A Post   Read the Forums Understand The Icons Read All New Posts Go To The First Unread Post In A Thread Use The Activity Feed Mark Forums As Read   Using the Forums Start A New Thread Begin by navigating to the appropriate forum. Once in the desired forum, at the top left, you'll see the Forum Nav tools including the "New Thread" button. Click the "New Thread" button.  In... read more

Search And Advanced Search Tutorial

Learn how to: Use the Basic Search Mode Use the Advanced Search Use Boolean Operators And Wildcards In Search Save Your Searches   Use the Basic Search Mode How To Execute a Basic Search At the top of every page, you will see the search bar to search the entire site (forums, reviews, articles, user profiles, etc). Enter your search keywords into the search bar. Click the "Search" button. Your results will display on several different tabs, divided up by the different types of content.  The first tab will show all of the results... read more

Community Profile Tutorial

Learn: Edit Your Community Profile Edit Your List Change Your Avatar Edit Your Account Change Your Password User Name Changes Edit Your Community Profile Your Community Profile is the place for you to tell other members of the community a little bit about yourself. Navigate to your user page by clicking on the "My Profile" tab. Toward the top right hand side of your user page, you will see the "Edit Community Profile" button. Click the "Edit Community Profile" button to answer the Profile Questions.  Feel free to answer any... read more

Tagging Tutorial

Learn: What is tagging and why is it important? How is the tagging on this site different than other sites? Add Tags To Forum Posts And Articles Remove Tags View Tag Pages Subscribe To Topic Tags     What is tagging?  Why is it important? Tags allow information from around the community to be aggregated together.  They are labels that can be added to forum posts or articles to tie pieces of content together to make relevant information easier to find.   Product Tags are unique identifiers for a specific product.  These tags are used... read more

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