Main buttons
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The main buttons are:
Reply
Create new topic
Like
Sign up
- After using the Create New Account form you will be emailed a link to validate your email address.
Log in
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Username/email address and password.
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Click “with email” to receive a login link (if you’ve forgotten your password).
Reply
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When you are reading a topic, either:
- Just click “ Reply”; or
- To quote someone, select the relevant text and select the “
Quote” button that pops up.
- Just click “
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When you receive an email notification, you can reply to the forum by replying to the email.
Create new topic
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Click “
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Choose a relevant category.
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You can add tags (e.g. “mha” or “mca”) in the “Law and practice” category.
Notifications
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Notifications appear at the top right of the screen alongside a number, and sometimes are sent by email.
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You can apply the following levels to categories, tags or topics:
| Level | Notified of | Default setting | Email sent |
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 Watching
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New topics and replies | Any topic to which you have added a reply | Yes |
 Tracking
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Replies to you (number will also increase for new topics and replies) | Any topic after 4 minutes of reading time | No |
 Watching first post (category only) |
New topics in category, but not replies | “Law and practice” and “Miscellaneous” categories | Yes |
 Normal
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A reply to you | Everything else | No |
 Muted
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Nothing | N/A | No |
- You can change these notification preferences (in particular your category notification preferences) and your email preferences (to receive more or fewer emails).
Preferences
- You can change any of your preferences on your preferences page.
Badges
- The badges come as part of the forum software, e.g. you will get a “Read guidelines” badge for reading this page. It’s a bit of fun and you can just ignore it.