This part of my Fanpop User Guide describes some of the basics of using the site, and was last substantively edited on 19 December 2007.

Covered in this article:
Finding spots
Fans of spots and users
Ratings
Favorites
Sharing
Reporting

Finding a spot
There are three primary ways to find spots that fit your interests, which is really the whole point of the site. The first (examples are marked with "1" in the illustration) is sejak Membaca the lists on the main page of the site ('fanpop home'): it's entirely possible that some content displayed there is of interest to you, whether it be a spotlit spot, a question, an image, a video, a forum, atau even a spot associated with one of the peminat-peminat featured on the main page. In general, every time a spot name is listed anywhere on the site, it is a clickable link which will take anda to that spot. A slight exception is the name of a spot in the "recent images" section, which will take anda to that image in the spot, rather than to the main page for that spot (just as if you'd clicked on the thumbnail of the picture).

The saat way to find a spot (marked with a "2" in the illustration) is sejak using the cari function. On every page of the site there is a box in which anda can type key words and then click a cari button to look for content that matches those words. The cari will try to find spots which match the words anda enter. Note: when we talk about any content on the site other than the spots themselves (soapbox artikel-artikel like this one, images, soalan & picks, fora, et cetera), we refer to them generically as 'links'. When anda use the cari function, anda may also find pautan that match your cari terms. cari results are divided into those two categories: spots, and links, so if you're looking for a spot, you'll find that listed first. The pautan are listed in the cari results below the first five spots listed. The senarai of link results have ikon-ikon that represent the type of link: images, videos, et cetera, but they are all grouped in the same section. cari results can take lebih than one page, so if anda don't see the spot atau link anda want, anda may click the 'more results' link (if available) to senarai another page of cari results of that type (spots atau links).

Note that the cari is a simple search, however, and does not recognize boolean expressions. That means that +”Kaiju Godzilla” +”cat monster” +video will get the same results as Kaiju cat monster video Kaiju Godzilla, as an example. In addition, the cari will look for each of the words anda type separately, so the cari results would be the same for cat video Godzilla Kaiju monster. This means that, for our example cari above, in addition to getting Godzilla in the results, anda might also get results of 'Some Rawak plant on a pole', 'Cat says a-ha!' and 'monster truck rally video'. The results are organized in order of accuracy of match, however, so a video of Godzilla fighting a cat monster (if there is one) would come first. If there isn't one, you'll see a message "We couldn't find any exact matches", followed sejak a senarai of partial matches.

The third way to find spots that match your interests (marked with a "3" in the illustration, above) is to use the 'Browse spots' feature on the main page of the site. This is currently found in the bottom right of that page. anda can click a channel tajuk (for instance, 'Pets & Animals') and then scroll through the different spots in that channel, atau anda can get a senarai of the most popular spots, atau anda can senarai just the pending spots.

Fan of a spot
Once anda find a spot that matches your interest, anda can add yourself as a peminat of that spot. To do so, click the link at the upper right of the page, below the link to your profil and above the 'banner' for that spot. The page will refresh immediately with anda as a peminat of that spot. Now if anda click the 'my profile' link, anda will see your profile, which will include that spot, as well as a running senarai of baru-baru ini kemaskini made to 'your' spots (the spots for which anda are a fan).

Fan of another user
As anda browse the site, anda will either find Friends and family anda know, atau you'll just notice other users who are posting pautan that match your interests. anda may say that anda are a peminat of another user. To do so, click on the user's name atau portrait picture. This will take anda to that user's profile. If anda want to explore a little lebih of what this user has done on the site, anda can select 'activity' in the bahagian, atas navigation bar. The module on the right will refresh with a senarai of the pautan that the user has added to the site, with the ability to also senarai the videos, images, comments, posts to fora, soalan and soapbox artikel-artikel that user has entered/created. Once you've satisfied yourself that anda want to add yourself as a fan, find the box labeled 'about me' on the left side of the user's profil page, which contains the user's portrait picture, whatever biographical information the user has decided to include and a number of quick links. One of these is 'Add to peminat List'. Click this link to senarai yourself as a peminat of the user.

Ratings
Please rate content whenever anda have a reaction to it, positive atau negative. At the moment, anda can rate videos, links, soapbox artikel-artikel and imej (remember, when we speak of content in general, we refer to all of these types of content as 'links'). When anda look at any of these things, you'll see a row of five grey circles with “rate this link” written across them. Click on these to rate the link in question, on a five bintang scale of 1 ('garbage') to 5 ('awesome!'), moving from left to right. It cannot be stressed enough how important ratings are, since many lists of links, et cetera use ratings as a major part of the algorithm to determine how they are displayed. In addition, the system of medal is completely based on ratings. If anda want your content to be recognized atau if anda want to appreciate the content that others have posted, the best thing anda can do it rate that content!

Favorites
As anda find pautan that anda particularly enjoy, atau that anda want to be able to find again quickly, anda can save them to your senarai of kegemaran links. To add a link to your favorites, simply click the 'save' button right under the ratings circles. To look up your senarai of favorites, go to your profil page. Your Kegemaran are listed in the left, right under the 'about me' box. sejak default, the Kegemaran are organized in reverse chronological order, with the link anda added to your Kegemaran senarai most recently listed at the top. If anda click the link 'more favorites', anda can choose to senarai your Kegemaran alphabetically sejak tajuk as an alternative.

Sharing
If anda find some content that anda think someone else will really like, there are two handy ways to send them a link to that content in e-mail. In each spot, in the upper right (just under the long horizontal image (called the spot's 'banner'), you'll see a link labeled 'invite friend'. Click that to fill out a form that will send an e-mail message to your friend inviting them to use that particular spot. Note: since this artikel was originally written, this feature has been expanded to track the number of new users who have registered on Fanpop from your invitations. So while the invitation is primarily a way to get others to see a spot anda like, it is also serving double-duty as a way to track how anda have contributed to the increase of Fanpop's registered users.

The saat way to share Fanpop content is to click the link labeled “Share this Link” (or 'Share Video' in the case of videos). This will also bring up a form, which is identical to the sebelumnya form except that the message sent to your friend will contain the Url to the link, rather than to the spot.

Report
Sometimes, even on a wonderful site like this one, there can be problems. There are two ways to lapor such problems. First, if there is a problem with a spot (it's obscene, it violates fanpop's terms of use, atau it duplicates an existing spot), click the 'report' link in the upper right of the spot (a little red flag just under the spot's banner). anda then are telah diberi a number of choices for what to report: the spot is either inappropriate, offensive, miscategorized (for example, if the Pirates of the Caribbean spot was listed in the Televisyen channel – it's not TV, so it shouldn't be there), atau duplicates a sebelumnya spot. If, on the other hand, a link is not working, anda should lapor that link. The way to lapor a problem with a link is to click the grey flag just under the ratings circles, and then select which type of problem it is: spam, outdated (if the link is to some event that has come and gone), broken (if the link doesn't work), miscategorized (the link was put in the wrong spot) atau inappropriate. In either case, anda may instead choose to select 'Don't Report' to batal the problem report.

Here's pautan to other parts of the guide for your quick reference:

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* 1: link

* 2: link.

* 3: link

* 4: Picks: this is the generic name both for the tinjauan soalan that anda see on the site and for the jawapan anda can pick to that question. Papa has created a link.

* 5: link

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* 7: link

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