@everyone (< do not abuse this btw, as everyone in the whole Discord will come running and get annoyed at overuse!)
Welcome to the Soapbox Testbed! This is the channel or ‘room’ where some of the experienced mods and Discord volunteers will talk you through a basic orientation. Click the people icon above (by the search/magnifying glass) to see ‘who is here’ list of Admins, Mods, and members on the right. On mobile devices you can ‘swipe’ left to see the same. Swipe right, or click the people icon again to see the various rooms or channels on the left. The rooms or channels you see will vary depending on your permission levels.

Accompanying this TEXT channel is a voice channel. You can and should be in both at the same time. #help desk voice or the channel right below this one, <#430201855172280360>

Look at the left hand column (swipe right if on mobile) and see your name in the lower left corner of your screen. Click the gear icon to set your voice method and volume levels for input and output. This area of setup usually requires a bit of talk through, but once you have learned this, please help train the next wave of volunteers who come in right behind you. This is how your skills develop and natural leaders emerge.

In our voice areas we usually select the Push To Talk setting. This helps curb background noises when button is not pushed. We recommend you use headphone also to prevent speaker feedback. Build good habits now as we try to up our game with the goal of a team of skilled professional sounding volunteers. Just us, but cool sounding 😎

Go back to Who’s Here view, click any name (with green or orange light) to Direct Message if you have a question or find yourselves in here alone or lost. ☝️

You have gained a rank @Deleted User, you just advanced to 1 . Thanks for all you do Patriot!

Awesome @Deleted User good overview brother!

Indeed. Great breakdown.

FOR EVERYONE NEW TO DISCORD - CHECKOUT THIS 6 MINUTE VIDEO
IF THIS HELPS, PLEASE SUBSCRIBE TO THIS CHANNEL FOR NEW UPCOMING TECH TIPS AND ACCURATE NEWS
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UE5x7-Z_AL8&t=107s
@everyone

Thank you. My fist assignment in CBTS Discord was vetting each new member and in IBOR and NameAndShame this type talk through had the new crew running themselves in about four hours 😁

You nailed it brother!

Yep. I spent hours in the help-desk on ibor helping people get set up

pls remember to set new chanel notifications to @ mentions only. not every post lol

I think there is a ‘Discord for Dummies’ video that covers the basics too.

my phone is havin a siezure lol

I'll find it for you

i changed my setting now but your able to do it for all as admin when u create a server

Channel settings up top

Yes, we just used the at @ sign to get newbies in here next after Welcome entry, but the best example is to limit use.

Agreed

Agreed also !!!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7BFytSpuAWs

Cosmic can actually limit or disable that. Yes, click the Testbed title on upper left hand corner to set your notification level. Do NOT click leave server to sign off for the day. This will literally kick you out of this Discord and you’ll have to re-enter all over again! LOL

Android app Notification Fix (Clear or Reduce Notifications) -
1) Select desired server from left-side.
2) Select three-line menu icon located upper-left of screen.
3) Select server listed. Drag up from selected server-name shown at bottom of screen.
4) Select Notifications on menu listed & select desired option; All Messages, [Only @mention], Nothing, Suppress @everyone and @here, or disable Mobile Push Notifications.
6) Select Back Arrow when done.

*Select "Nothing" Option ", & Deselect "Mobile Push Notifications" by tapping on it once, respectively if no notifications are desired.

https://youtu.be/w9yFODhWATw

https://youtu.be/E7xznRGg9WM

Those should help as well @Deleted User

Great job @An0n_American

Any time

@CosmiC10R can you change the server setting to mentions Only?

@Gab.ai/cannuker777 yes, but you can click the ‘Testbed’ Discord title on upper left hand corner and set your notifications there to All, @ or None. This will keep us all sane.

Yes, I was getting the bot notifications every grab of Fox News, etc. a couple dozen at least hahaha

Once you enter the ‘help desk voice’ channel, plus this <#430201855172280360> room or channel, you can practice chat and text simultaneously. Links and sauce can be posted in this space (text) while ongoing voice questions and answers carry on live. Learn to watch both. In 24-7 Soapbox Livestream our researchers drop links, Q posts, etc., while the voice is ongoing.

Thanks Gen6 Slayr

Yes sir. Very good advice @Deleted User

^^^ @himtex

Okay, volunteers, if we could write a summary of our tips today, including vids, and post in new channel <#430892996716920852> for a more permanent reference to get our newcomers oriented and up to speed. We will not chat in there, just these basic tips to send anyone and everyone for 101 training tips. This channel scrolls off so that will be our how-to repository. Thank you all, great prep work today!

I can pin now, but many of my ‘paragraphs’ above were actually 6 posts long. I can rewrite and pin, except newbies often never click the red pushpin, but will do both. Marise, you are key asset here and I thank you! 👍 for bringing your experience and links!