Fanpop Article: Fanpop User's Guide

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posted by harold

So, you've found Fanpop, are at least intrigued by what you've seen, and want more. So, now what?

First of all, if you haven't already, you will want to link for the following reasons:

1)Spots: once you've registered and logged in, you can create a personalized list of spots that match your unique interests. In addition, if you can't find the spot that fits you, you can create your own!

2)Ratings: Rating the content on fanpop is the engine that drives the site, and you can only rate things once you've registered and logged in.

3)Picks: Only logged-in users can answer any of the questions on the site.

4)Comments: You can't place a comment in a forum, enter a response to a link, or critique a video unless you're logged in.

5)Personalizing your profile: This can't be done unless you are logged in (you don't even have a profile unless you've registered).

6)Fans: Once you've logged in, you can pick users that you like for their content and say you are a "fan" of theirs. Then, you can jump from your profile to their profiles to see what content they've provided to the site.

7)New content: Once you've logged in, you can create your own spots, questions, soapbox articles, as well as uploading video links/images and linking to other worthwhile content on the web.

8)Saving your favorite links: The site provides a way to save the content that you really like to your profile.

I'll assume from this point on that you have registered and have logged in.

Here's links 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 poll questions that you see on the site and for the answers you can pick to that question. Papa has created a link.

* 5: link

* 6:
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* 7: link

You may also want to see:

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(this article was last substantively edited on 19 December 2007)

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vider69 Thanks for clearing up some of my questions, I still have a lot more though, this gives me a few things to go on. Thanks.

hellgirl223 I Love this!

bRiNnAyCuLlEn how do become a dedicated, etc. fan???

sistabella Is it possible to watch the videos in Full screen? I have searched everywhere, and googles it. But I still don't find an answer.

harold Whether you can watch videos full screen or not depends on the source site for the video - Fanpop does not store videos on their own database machines. Instead, every video link is a link to another site's video content (think Blinkx or dailymotion). For many sites, Fanpop has made an arrangement to accommodate the site's "embed a video" code into Fanpop, so that if you post a link to that site's content to Fanpop, Fanpop will automatically recognize it as an embeddable video and both put it into the videos section and make it so that you can play the video on Fanpop, without having to leave for the other site (sadly, Fanpop hasn't done this with blinkx videos yet, so all those show up as "links" rather than "videos"). What this means, though, is that those other sites provide the complete video-viewing interface, so it's up to those sites whether there is a "view full-screen" version or not. YouTube is notorious for changing how their embedded video player works, so it's entirely possible that YouTube videos can no longer be played full-screen on another site, or that the people who post to YouTube can specify whether to allow full-screen viewing or not. The same can be said for other video sharing sites, of course, just that they tend to not change how their players work anywhere near as often as YouTube pulls changes on us users.

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