Questions About Our Community
We'll use this page to try and address some of the more frequently
asked questions we receive. If you've got a question you think
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How do I get videos on the site? You cannot upload videos to the site, but you can 'Embed' them from another site. What that means is that you are able to view the video on this site while the other site still hosts the video file. You can do this in any text field on the site, especially Discussion or Blog posts. When you are typing your post you can simply insert the code to embed video from whatever site you wish. For example, on YouTube, to the right of the video you will see a section with a couple links in it, one of them is labled 'Embed'. Select and copy the text in that field and paste it in your post. There you have it.
I've joined the "Private" group, which is supposed to be a closed group, but my comments there are showing on my page! These are supposed to be private, aren't they? If you are part of a private group and visit another users page who is also part of that group you will see their activity in the private group on your page. This is because you are part of the group as well and therefore have permission to see it. If another user who was not part of the group visited that same page, they would not see the information in the feed because they do not have the right "permissions."
What can a "friend" do that other members of The Max Lucado Community cannot do? Your friends can send you private messages through the community. Besides them, this is something only the Administrators can do. You can also set your content—videos, photos, blog posts—to be viewable by "Just My Friends" rather than by the network at large. You'll find many other features throughout the site that utilize your friends list. This isn't MySpace or Facebook...you not in some sort of contest to see how many friends you can accumulate here. We encourage you to use the friends feature as a tool to help manage your interactions on the site.
How do privacy settings for pictures and albums work? Privacy settings are picture specific not album specific. In fact your albums can contain not just your pictures, but any pictures you have permission to access on the entire Max Lucado Community system. So, for example, you could create a photo album for an event you attended and include other people's pictures from the event in that album. Those individual pictures privacy settings would then be applied to the album so that a user viewing the album would only be able to see pictures that they were supposed to see. Albums are a way of grouping pictures and do not affect the privacy of the pictures.
How can I check to see if there are people out here in my area to connect with? I think the best way to do this is using the Search. On certain pages the Search is content sensitive, which you'll see that on the button itself. If you go to the Members page and search, it will search through all the members. The other option is the Site Search that is on all pages, which obviously will search the whole site. I live in Texas, so if I want to find peeps in Texas I search for 'Texas' as well as 'TX' from different pages. The results vary, but leave me with enough information that I can see most everyone from Texas. Members do not have to list where they are from so unless they leak that info out in a blog or discussion, you won't be able to find them. They just may want it that way, and that's ok. Try searching different pages. Or search the Groups and see if there are any 'located' in your area. Or maybe better yet, you could also create your own group with the intent for people in your area to join it.
How do I get videos on the site? You cannot upload videos to the site, but you can 'Embed' them from another site. What that means is that you are able to view the video on this site while the other site still hosts the video file. You can do this in any text field on the site, especially Discussion or Blog posts. When you are typing your post you can simply insert the code to embed video from whatever site you wish. For example, on YouTube, to the right of the video you will see a section with a couple links in it, one of them is labled 'Embed'. Select and copy the text in that field and paste it in your post. There you have it.
I've joined the "Private" group, which is supposed to be a closed group, but my comments there are showing on my page! These are supposed to be private, aren't they? If you are part of a private group and visit another users page who is also part of that group you will see their activity in the private group on your page. This is because you are part of the group as well and therefore have permission to see it. If another user who was not part of the group visited that same page, they would not see the information in the feed because they do not have the right "permissions."
What can a "friend" do that other members of The Max Lucado Community cannot do? Your friends can send you private messages through the community. Besides them, this is something only the Administrators can do. You can also set your content—videos, photos, blog posts—to be viewable by "Just My Friends" rather than by the network at large. You'll find many other features throughout the site that utilize your friends list. This isn't MySpace or Facebook...you not in some sort of contest to see how many friends you can accumulate here. We encourage you to use the friends feature as a tool to help manage your interactions on the site.
How do privacy settings for pictures and albums work? Privacy settings are picture specific not album specific. In fact your albums can contain not just your pictures, but any pictures you have permission to access on the entire Max Lucado Community system. So, for example, you could create a photo album for an event you attended and include other people's pictures from the event in that album. Those individual pictures privacy settings would then be applied to the album so that a user viewing the album would only be able to see pictures that they were supposed to see. Albums are a way of grouping pictures and do not affect the privacy of the pictures.
How can I check to see if there are people out here in my area to connect with? I think the best way to do this is using the Search. On certain pages the Search is content sensitive, which you'll see that on the button itself. If you go to the Members page and search, it will search through all the members. The other option is the Site Search that is on all pages, which obviously will search the whole site. I live in Texas, so if I want to find peeps in Texas I search for 'Texas' as well as 'TX' from different pages. The results vary, but leave me with enough information that I can see most everyone from Texas. Members do not have to list where they are from so unless they leak that info out in a blog or discussion, you won't be able to find them. They just may want it that way, and that's ok. Try searching different pages. Or search the Groups and see if there are any 'located' in your area. Or maybe better yet, you could also create your own group with the intent for people in your area to join it.
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