It's a fan-community-generated library of evergreen q&a and knowhow, and a social network for knowledge sharing, around software applications.
With Fanhow you can:
Voting is a good way to get more fanhow users to concern your questions, answers and know-how articles.
Higher votes mean higher credibility and more attention. In addition, high votes will stimulate other users' enthusiasm and inspire them to improve the articles.
Before voting on Fanhow, make sure you’ve been logged on your account.
There is a vote field on up right corner of articls, software and question pages. You can vote up or vote down a software, articls and question by clicking on the Useful or Unuseful button. Click once again, the former will be canceled.
Tips: In Wiki Q&A, you can also vote for other users' answers. To vote down an answer, your community reputation must achieved 100 points.
It is the search tool that is the most convenient way to help you quickly find the knowledge you need on Fanhow.
On Fanhow, apart from wide search, each channel (wiki Q&A, wiki know-how, Software ) has a custom search, which will incredibly narrow the search results and provide more accurate information.
The search tool allows users to browse the search results of specific software by highlighting the software name in the suggestion list.
In Fanhow, tag is a way to categorize know-how articles and software. When you click a tag, it will index all know-how articles and software with the same tag.
Click the My tags icon on the article page, you can delete and edit personal tags, or add new tags. Pay attention to the following:
In Fanhow, know-how articles and Q&A are categorized by topic. You have to select topics when editing an know-how article or question. In addition, topic can help filter the knowledge when browsing know-how articles and Q&A.
The way to share your favorite software include, voting, writing reviews and improving its information. The value of recommending and sharing your favorite software is:
The essential primary use of a software, simply considered as software, such as "Graphics Editors" or "icon tools".
You are only allowed to select the "This is a" items from the suggestion list.
For more information, see here.
When editing software articles, you can upload the screenshots for the software under Screenshot tab.
Make sure that the image is in a compatible format, JPEG, PNG or GIF, if not, convert the format before uploading.
There are two entrances for creating articles on Fanhow:
For more information about writing an article on Fanhow, see How to write a good know-how article title? and How to write a basic know-how article in Fanhow?
The review is an easy way for other users to know the features of software. A good review will start discussion among the software users and impact their choice.
You can write reviews under Post a review on software page. A good review should be:
When viewing a user's review about software, if you agree, click Yes to support his opinion, if not, click No. Otherwise, you can join the discussion and post comments to the reviews.
There are fast entrances for asking question on both site home and Wiki Q&A home. Or you can ask question about specific software on its exclusive page.
To post a good question, you should:
Leave this item blank, if you are not sure the related software or service in the suggestion list.
In order to bridge the knowledge, system doesn’t recognize the content typed in manually, so please select the software or service from the suggestion list.
You will gain reputation from others acceptance, e.g.your answers being voted up by others.
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The reputation indicates your contribution and celebrity in the community, as well as your reliability to other users. In fanhow community, the reputation is not from the numbers of questions you've answered, but from others' acceptance.
With a higher reputation, you will be more followed by others and to be the opinion leader.
In addition, amass enough reputation points and Fanhow will allow you to access to some advanced operations:
For more information about correspondence between users rights and reputation, See here
To ensure your answers are effective, answer questions of software or topic you’re expert in.
The tips below may help you contribute a good answer:
You may offer a bounty after you ask a question, if the question does not have an accepted answer. You must have at least 50 reputations to offer a bounty. This costs your reputation, but it will push your post to the featured tab for 7 days and visually distinguish it from other posts. It will get more attention. But once you set the best answer for a bounty question, the operation cannot be canceled again and the user whose answer you accepted will gain the bounty. If the bounty expires, but you still haven’t accepted an answer, the answer with the highest votes will be automatically marked as accepted. In this case, this user of this answer will gain half of the bounty, but you will also lose all of the reputation offered for the bounty.
Yes, any articles which are representative, and chosen from the popular articles are eligible to be shown under spotlight.
A profile is a unique way of creating a short homepage to let people know your information and activities on Fanhow.
Yes, you can send private or public messages in the message board without logging in Fanhow.
When you create a Fanhow Account, you receive a verification email at the email address you used to create the account. You need to click the link in that email to verify your account. Otherwise, you cannot ask questions, post answers or other e-mail-based features on the Fanhow.
If you're not sure whether or not your account has been verified yet, you can log in and access your account. If your account hasn't yet been verified, you'll see a notification on the head of the page asking you to verify it. Otherwise, you won't see this notification.
Note:
a) The email address you use to create your account should be an address you can currently access.
b) If you don't receive this email (remember to check your email spam folder), please try again later.
Account verification helps with: