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Fark Frequently Asked Questions (FAQ): Quick Answers

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Quick Answers

I want to create an account

  • To confirm your account, you need to respond to the email sent to the address you provided during creation.

If you do not receive that message, check your junk/bunk folders in case it was accidentally marked as spam.

If you lost the confirmation email, you can still confirm the account by doing this:

1) click on MyFark tab 2) fill in the user/pass information

Scroll down to Statistics (it's under Preferences) and you'll see the system message about the account not being confirmed. You can re-send yourself the confirmation email by clicking on the blue text.

If that address is incorrect - or has changed - you can correct it by clicking on the Edit button and replacing the old address with the new one. (It's right above your login.)

Then click on the blue text in Statistics and it should issue a new confirmation email. After you reply to the confirmation email, you will have to wait 24 hours before posting. Spammers and trolls are why that policy had to be put in place.

I lost my Farking password.

If you forget what yours is, all you have to do is fill out the Farkback form and choose "lost password" from the pull-down menu.

Note: You must use Farkback to retrieve your password. We don't answer directly mailed requests.

  • Fark does not automate the password retrieval process since it's pretty easy to fool a bot and Captcha is a huge pain in the ass.
  • If your email is provided by an anonymizing service or requires approval before delivery you will not be able to recover your password.
  • Always choose a secure password. If your password is easily guessed and someone comes along and steals your account, you will not be able to recover that account - even if it's a TotalFark account. You will not receive a refund for a stolen TotalFark account. Stolen accounts are locked-down permanently, so keep that in mind when choosing a password.
  • Change your password often. Just click on the My Fark tab and fill in the blanks.
  • Be sure that your spam filters allow email notifications from Fark.

I want to submit a link.

Use our submission form.

I want to buy a Classified ad or a banner ad.

For Classified ads, use our submission form and be sure to check the "Classified" checkbox. For banner ads, use Farkback to contact our sales staff.

Read the Fark Classifieds section for more information. The Posting Rules apply to all classified ads.

I want to know what's OK to post and what isn't.

See our Posting Rules.

I want to post images and links in my comments.

See our Basic HTML guide.

I want to post a Photoshop.

See our Photoshop FAQ.

I want to post an AudioEdit.

See our Audio Edit FAQ.

I want to post my Farktography entry.

See our Farktography FAQ.

I want to sign up for TotalFark.

Try the TotalFark Signup form.

I'm short on beer money and have to cancel my TotalFark subscription.

The TotalFark Signup form is also the cancel form.

I can't post a comment.

If you are having trouble posting or submitting links, check the Technical Questions section of this FAQ or fill out the Farkback form.

Is your account new? Has it been confirmed via email? New accounts must wait 24 hours before posting and must be unlocked by replying to the confirmation email sent to you at sign up time. If you did not receive a confirmation email, check your Junk/Bulk mail folders first just in case it was filtered out as spam. To have a confirmation email re-issued, simply click on the My Fark Tab and then click on "re-send the confirmation email" to have another confirmation message sent to your address.

I tried clicking on comments for a link and it said it was for TotalFarkers only.

Most of the time, this is because one of us wasn't paying attention (or was drunk) and posted two links to the same story to the front page of Fark. Once we take the duplicate link down, it takes a few minutes for the link to disappear from the page. If you're using our RSS feed, it may not disappear at all. That's normal.

I can't log in to TotalFark.

If you are having trouble logging in, check the Technical Questions section of this FAQ or fill out the Farkback form.

Does Fark have an RSS feed?

Yes. It's here.

  • The RSS is intended as a convenience only. Attempting to create a duplicate of Fark will result in the issuance of a C&D.

How do I search for old Fark articles?

We now have a headline search feature. Just enter some words out of the headline and it'll find everything that matches. TotalFark subscribers can search redlit links too.

Only headlines are searchable. We have no plans to make comments searchable.

Search terms can be individual words, a double-quoted phrase, or you can build combinations using parentheses and boolean operators. A plus sign in front of a word means the word must appear in the results, a minus means it must not. Common words like "and" and "the" are ignored. In general, it works pretty much like Google does.

Searches can be limited to specific topic tags, dates, or URL's by using search terms like +topic:amusing +date:2007-02-14 +url:google.com. Those are the only three fields currently searchable like that, though. Ranges of dates are not yet supported, but will be in the future. Sorting results by date is also planned for the near future.

For the advanced users wanting tips on more obscure search syntax, the query language is pretty close to what Apache Lucene uses. (KinoSearch is what we're actually using.)

I don't like my login anymore and want it changed/deleted.

We can't help you out with that one, unfortunately. We don't delete logins and we don't change account names. Unused or seemingly abandoned accounts are not available for "recycling."

I want to submit a source icon for my website.

Tired of being Some Guy? Improve your image by submitting a source icon for your site. There are only three requirements for this:

  • Your image must be exactly 77 pixels wide by 27 pixels high and under 5k in size. Acceptable formats are .gif, .jpg, and .png.
  • You must include the full URL of your site. If there's more than one URL, list them all.
  • Your image must comply with the rules listed in the posting rules.

Submit your source icons to Drew at Fark dot com. Put "source image" in the subject line and be absolutely sure to include the full URL (or URL's) for your site. All source icons are subject to approval and/or modification. Not all source images will be approved, so don't take it personally if yours is rejected.

Fark looks weird in my browser.

This is covered in our Tech FAQ.

Why is there a red horizontal line above certain posts, especially my own?

The red line marks the boundary between new posts you haven't read and old ones you have.

Immediately after posting a new comment, the only new post is the one you just made, so the red separator line appears above that.

Where did the HTML assistant buttons for posting comments disappear to?

Most likely you have disabled Javascript in your browser, or are using a browser blugin that selectively blocks it (like NoScript for Firefox). If Javascript is working, you may have simply disabled it in your profile; there's a checkbox to enable/disable it in your MyFark profile.

Why can't I link images on home.comcast.net?

We're still looking into this. As best as we can tell, Comcast migrated some customer websites from an older setup to a newer setup at their end, and if your site hasn't been migrated yet, it issues a redirect that requires cookies to work. The link validation tool we use ignores cookies, so it just redirects in an endless loop and eventually gives up. This is something Comcast is going to have to fix for you, probably by migrating your site to their newer setup. Maybe that just means re-uploading it to a different FTP server. We don't know for sure as none of us are Comcast customers. But if you do know, please tell us so we can update this FAQ entry.

I want to ask a question that's not on this list.

Contact Farkback

Does Drew have a contingency plan for Fark in the event of zombies?

No plans in the event of zombies, we're just all screwed