What is the best way to ask for help on the Physics Forums?

[sojsail]

Joining here hoping that environment is an improvement over answers.yahoo. I will be looking for questions that I can offer an answer to. Hoping to do well. umm. Should I create thread or upload? I will probably tangle things up until I learn the procedure
tjsail

 

[phinds]

Joining here hoping that environment is an improvement over answers.yahoo. I will be looking for questions that I can offer an answer to. Hoping to do well. umm. Should I create thread or upload? I will probably tangle things up until I learn the procedure
tjsail

Welcome to the forum. I've never used answers.yahoo but I can guarantee you that for science questions, you will find this site to be an improvement over EVERYTHING

Create a thread when you have a question. I'm not sure what you mean by "upload". The only thing uploaded to here is images (and the occasional video).

Be a good idea to read the rules. They actually matter here.

 

[sojsail]

I was looking at the New Member Introductions page. Upload is what one of the few things available to click on said.

 

[phinds]

I was looking at the New Member Introductions page. Upload is what one of the few things available to click on said.

Hm. Can you do a screen shot of it? I can't seem to locate what you mean. Each response box has "post reply", "preview", and "upload" but it doesn't sound like that's what you mean. If it is, that's just the way to upload a pic or a vid.

 

[sojsail]

My "Welcome to PF! Here is some important information" email had these 2 lines (among others).

Start out by introducing yourself in the "new member" area (Please No Questions or Homework):
https://www.physicsforums.com/forums/new-member-introductions.240/create-thread

This is what brought me to the point that puzzled me. I wrote in the text box and was looking for what the next step should be. There were the 3 click-boxes create thread, upload, and preview... beneath the text box. Being a new member, I just need to feel my way in the dark.

I will be OK. I am here to find a better place to answer Physics questions. I am working on an answer about circuit analysis now.

 

[phinds]

Ah. Gotcha. Type a message in the box, preview it if you want, upload pic/vids if you want.

 

[berkeman]

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