@LeeWoofenden I'm looking for some technical help: I noticed in a recent question on genealogies that you inserted into your answer a link to my answer. Clicking on the link 'Dick Harfield's answer' takes the reader direct to what I said, rather than to top of page. How did you do that?

@DickHarfield The old hands here might have a more efficient way, but here's what I did: I went to your user profile, sorted your answers by most recent, and clicked on that one. Then I copied the link from the browser and inserted it into my answer. If anyone reading in does have a more direct way, I'm all ears!

@DickHarfield @LeeWoofenden - click the 'share' button. This also works for questions.

@El'endiaStarman Ha! I knew there had to be an easier way! After all, StackExchange was designed by computer geeks for computer geeks! ;-)

:D

Incidentally, this is how you get the Announcer, Booster, and Publicist badges. You post that share link somewhere and lots of people go check it out.

@El'endiaStarman I have actually shared a few links. But not where gobs of people are going to click on 'em.

@LeeWoofenden Same.

@LeeWoofenden @El'endiaStarman Thank you both for this.

You're welcome. :)

Maybe we need a HELP page for newbies, so they/we can learn all the tricks the old hands are using?

There might be one somewhere on Meta.SE.

When I suggest a facility for newbies, it should be easy and accessible, and its existence should not need guessing :)

Thx @curiousdannii - but for a new contributor who wants to start at the basics and work forward? I would have suggested a 'tips' section in Help.

I ask help to formulate following question; what what do you say ISIS, refugee crisis and persecution of christians are in light of the Bible? Are they signs of the times. I have heard that one should analyze news from the perspective of the bible prophecy. I'm not sure if question above is simple enough.

and of course there is rebirth of the nation of Israel too.

I mean is this "truth" question and thus unacceptable in CSE?

@alvoutila It is definitely opinion based

What I'd recommend is focusing on a specific author who has taught something like this, and then ask for an explanation about a specific thing they wrote which you don't fully understand

Well you know. Where in CSE there is explanation on what is opinion based and what not?

I have not read any book on these signs of the times.

@curiousdannii This question was to curiousdannii

@alvoutila Here's a list of question types that are considered acceptable: meta.christianity.stackexchange.com/q/3409/21576

"opinion based" usually means that the content of an answer will necessarily depend on the beliefs of the person answering the question. To avoid that, you need to specify whose opinion you want, so that the question can be answered objectively.

There are many different ways that Christians view current events like ISIS, so by specifying a particular author, or a particular theological tradition (Catholicism, Seventh Day Adventist, Calvinism, etc.), the question's scope is limited and can be answered in a Q&A format like this one.

Well, I just eclipsed 5000 rep.

I'll be sure to let out some doves

@LCIII Oh great; more competition for tag wiki edit reviews :)

@Nathaniel The Christianity.SE competition is heating up! The race is to the swift and strong! ;-)

Golden apples, anyone?

@LeeWoofenden HA! I don't think-OOOH! SHINY!!!

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@El'endiaStarman :-D