General
What's Recipester.org?
Recipester is a community designed to do more than merely help you share information and opinions about your favorite software. It provides wiki Q&A, wiki tutorial and refinement search tools that help you get the right answer quickly and easily when you have a question, a problem or make a decision about software. It aims to be the #1 source for software related answers.
With Recipester you can:
- Share information, opinions, and knowledge about the software you like the most.
- Ask questions and get answers from experienced users and our real experts.
- Learn software related knowledge through step by step wiki-tutorials from real experts.
- Discover great software you need indeed.
- Meet people with similar interests.
Why should I vote for questions, answers, tutorials and software on Recipester?
Voting is a good way to get more Recipester users to concern your questions, answers and tutorials.
Higher votes mean higher credibility and more attention. In addition, high votes will stimulate other users' enthusiasm and inspire them to improve the articles.
How to vote on Recipester?
Before voting on Recipester, make sure you’ve been logged on your account.
There is a vote field on up right corner of tutorials, software and question pages. You can vote up or vote down a software, tutorial 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.
How can I rapidly get software knowledge?
It is the search tool that is the most convenient way to help you quickly find the knowledge you need on Recipester.
On Recipester, apart from wide search, each channel (wiki Q&A, wiki Tutorials, 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.
How can I use tag?
In Recipester, tag is a way to categorize tutorials and software. When you click a tag, it will index all tutorials 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:
- You can tag articles only if you’ve been logged on Recipester.
- Tag is the concise interpretation of the article knowledge.
- Add "" to a tag of phrase
What's "Topic"?
In Recipester, tutorials and Q&A are categorized by topic. You have to select topics when editing a tutorial or question. In addition, topic can help filter the knowledge when browsing tutorials and Q&A.
Software
Why should I recommending and sharing my favorite software?
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:
- Let more users get to know your favorite software and get exposure for the software.
- To be an opinion leader of this softwre, your reviews and software information will be accepted by more users.
- Meet people with same interests about the software.
- The software page bridges your communication with others, where you can share your reviews and tutorials.
- When encounter a problem about the software you recommended, you can discuss with other users who also love this software so as to get an effective solution.
What's "This is a"?
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.
How to upload screenshots for software articles on Recipester?
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.
How to create a tutorial for my favorite software on Recipester?
There are two entrances for creating tutorials on Recipester:
- On the software article page, you can start a tutorial for the present software under Write a Tutorial tab.
- In the Wiki Tutorials channel, click the Write a Tutorial link and enter the software name in the Related software & service field.
For more information about writing a tutorial on Recipester, see How to write a good tutorial title? and How to write a basic tutorial in Recipester?
What's the value of software reviews?
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.
How to post software review on Recipester?
You can write reviews under Post a review on software page. A good review should be:
- Based on your experience, star rate the software, and the highest is five stars while one star is the lowest.
- Be neutral, neither exaggerate nor slander.
- Stir other users to post reviews or comments.
How to comment reviews on Recipester?
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.
Wiki Q&A
How can I post a question on Recipester?
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.
Tips for Asking a Question on Recipester
To post a good question, you should:
- Pick a clear and exact title for your question.
- Provide detailed information for the problem you encountered. It’s better to exactly describe your operating environment, including system, program information, certain operation steps and insert screenshots, if necessary.
- Select a topic for your question, so as to get a quick answer from experienced users or experts under that category.
- Select related software or service for your question to attract other users of that software.
What should I do, if I’m not sure the related software or service of my question?
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.
How about the community reputation rule?
You will gain reputation from others acceptance, e.g.your answers being voted up by others.
For more information, see here
What is the significance of my reputation?
The reputation indicates your contribution and celebrity in the community, as well as your reliability to other users. In Recipester 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 Recipester will allow you to access to some advanced operations:
- Start a bounty for a question.
- Edit others’ questions and answers
For more information about correspondence between users rights and reputation, See here
How to provide a good answer on Recipester?
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:
- Be direct. Solution with clear and brief description is more likely to be accepted.
- Be elegant. A good formatting such as illustrated step by step style will more fully express your solution.
How do I start a bounty for my question on Recipester?
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.
Wiki Tutorials
How to write a good tutorial title?
- Your article title needs to immediately capture the interest of your intended audience and motivate them to read further.
- Decide the purpose of your article. Are you trying to convince your audience to do something.
- Determine the main idea of your article. Use a shortened version of the main idea in the title of your article.
- Craft an article title that offers readers a glimpse of the content with your first glance. Aim for simple, straight-forward language in the article title but don't be afraid to also try a catchy phrase or wordplay.
- Syntax: Avoid the use of introductory phrases; Avoid using ALL CAPS, Internet shorthand, and emoticons.
How to write a basic tutorial in Recipester?
- You could start writing an article by clicking on the “Write a Recipe” or “Recommend a software”.
- Fill in all the Software or Recipe information required.
- Click on the “Publish” button to accomplish writing an Article.
Is there a chance for my tutorials to gain exposure on Recipester homepage?
Yes, any recipes which are representative, and chosen from the popular recipes are eligible to be shown under spotlight.
Profile
How Can I Manage My Profile?
A profile is a unique way of creating a short homepage to let people know your information and activities on Recipester.
- Reputation and Badges: indicate your certain attributes or accomplishments as the community user.
- Favorite software: lists all software you ever voted up.
- Recent activity: records your recent community activities.
- Board: displays messages other users left and your replies.
- In addition, your questions, answers, contributions(articles you ever edited), reviews and votes will be recorded into your profile as well.
How do I add an avatar to my Profile?
- After signing in Recipester, click the "Account Settings" on the login page to open the account settings page.
- Find the horizontal navigation bar on the upper side and then click on the “Avatar” link to get in.
- Choose the right avatar by clicking on "Browse" link and upload it. Be sure that the image is in a format compatible with Recipester (JPEG, PNG, GIF).
Can I send a private message to any Recipester user?
Yes, you can send private or public messages in the message board without logging in Recipester.
How can I activate my account?
When you create a Recipester 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 Recipester.
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:
- Preventing spam: we try to verify that real people, not robots, are creating accounts.
- Recovering account access: we will use your information to verify your identity if you ever lose access to your account.
- Communication: we will use your information to notify you of important messages and changes to your account.
