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Habr through the eyes of a beginner

To your attention is offered a small selection of information about how the most productive and efficiently you can use such a wonderful resource like Habr.

Subjectivism, of course, will be present in this article, because what is interesting and useful for me personally, someone from Habr's readers may seem trivial and obvious, but I hope there will be those to whom the information below will help to more fully use the opportunities available on Habré.

Personally, after logging in on Habré, in addition to excellent articles, I really liked the following: authors' competence, self-regulation, friendly community, convenient tools for creating articles and communication.
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Below, watch the video about the toolkit available on Habré, which showed:




Below I describe the capabilities of the Habr toolkit for convenient work with information in the format text + images + slideshow.


Immediately I will clarify that in this article I will not talk about how to register on Habré in Read Only mode, as well as how to add my article to the Sandbox in order to get a full account on Habré. I will describe the topic of self-organization on Habré very briefly, as I have only seen the effect of Karma from the side. It would be interesting to talk about the Habr + Hunthim and Habr + Freelansim bundles , as well as the possibilities of the section Events , but I hope that I will return to these topics in my next posts on Habré.
So, to your attention a newbie's look at the features and chips available on Habré.

Setup and editing Habralenta
When you first visit Habr, after registration, you will be asked to configure the parameters of your personal information tape - Habralenta . Once, but thoughtfully setting up Habralent according to his hobbies and professional skills, you can conveniently interact with Habr, reading the news of exactly the subject that interests you.

To set up Habralents you need to mark the subject blogs that you are interested in - Hubs, then click the Save button, which is located under the list of Hub categories.

By customizing your personal Habralent, you can:
  • select individual Hubs from any category available on the HabrĂ© (click on the name of the category in which the Hub you are interested in, then click in the cell to the left of the name of the Hub of interest);
  • choose categories of Hubs entirely (click in the cell to the left of the category name of the Hubs).


Clicking on the names of the information Hubs, you can go to the appropriate Hub and see what they write in it.

image - Setting Habralenta

In addition to being able to subscribe to Hubs and Hub categories displayed in the general list, you can also subscribe to Hubs of the category that suits you, sorted according to their rating (index). To do this, click the Hubs button, which is to the left below the Habra icon, then select the category of Hubs of interest to you in the list to the right, and moving through the pages of the list forward and backward (to and fro), mouse over to the right of the Hubs names, click the highlighted Subscribe button opposite those thematic blogs, news and articles of which you are interested:

image - Subscription to Hubs, sorted by rating

Also, under the name of each Hub, the number of subscribers, the number of posts and the number of questions asked within this thematic blog are displayed (you can click on these numeric characteristics to go to the list of Habr users who subscribe to this Hub; a list of all news and articles from this thematic blog, arranged in chronological order, as well as to the list of all questions asked by Habr users within the framework of the topic of the selected blog).

One more chip of Habr, to which I paid attention not immediately, is the field of quick search by Hubs. This field is located on the Hubs page on the left above the Hubs list. This tool works as follows: enter the first letters of the name of the Hub you are interested in, as a result, the list of Hubs that begin with the letter combination that you entered is highlighted from below. A quick search on the Hubs is convenient to use if you remember the name of the Hub, but do not remember which category it is in.

Separately from thematic blogs , on Habré there are also blogs of companies working in the field of IT. Blogs of companies of interest to you can also be added to your personal Habralent, this is done in the same way as adding Hubs sorted according to the rating:

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  1. Click the Company button, which is located under the Habr icon;
  2. Choose the appropriate category in the list on the right;
  3. Find the company you are interested in in the list, and by moving the mouse over the area to the right of the company name, click on the highlighted button Subscribe .


After you have customized your personal Habrolent, you can change the list of thematic blogs tracked through Habrolent at any time. This is done very simply:

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  1. Click the Show Settings button, which you will find in the right pane called Tape Setting (the panel is located under the Habr search field);
  2. Tick ​​off those Hubs and Hub categories that you want to add to your personal Habralent, uncheck the boxes that are not needed;
  3. Click Save .


The main features like Habralenta described. Now I will tell a little about the Habrapolo user profile and the opportunities available during the work with it.
Habr's profile and information available in it
From Habr's user profile, you can learn a lot about his interests, see what useful articles and news he has added to favorites, read the information that the user has shared with the Habrasoobshchestvo through posts and comments, and also find out the coordinates of the user to communicate with him.

I recently showed very little activity on Habré, so much of what I’d like to talk about the capabilities of Habr's user profile can’t be described as part of my profile.
Therefore, as an example, I chose Milfgard's user profile , whose blog about board games and the Mosigra company I really liked.

So, we proceed to the description. Go to the Habr user profile that you are interested in, you can click on his nickname at the bottom of the post on Habré (if he is the author), or by clicking on the nickname in the comments (if you are interested in the user who commented on an interesting article).

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Going to the user profile, to the right of the username you will see the user's karma - the number of green and User rating - the number of pink. The karma of the user depends on his utility on Habré from the point of view of other users, determined by the vote of other users (Habrazhiteli can vote, the Karma of which is> 15, the available ratings are "+1" and "-1"). The user rating of Habr (he is Habrasila) is calculated taking into account the user's Karma, user activity and a number of other factors. Read more about Karma and Rating in the Habr reference book , from myself I’ll say that both of these parameters serve as an excellent self-regulation mechanism on Habré.

To the right of the Rating there is a button in the form of an envelope, by clicking which, you can write a letter to the user via Habrapochta .

In the right panel Habr, which is called User Information , you will find buttons by clicking on which you can see:
  • Habrazhiteli list, subscribed to this user;
  • list of user posts;
  • comments left by the user to articles on HabrĂ©;
  • The list of questions and answers of the user in the framework of the q & a section ( questions and answers ).

In the same panel there is a Subscribe button, by clicking which you can subscribe to posts and user comments, as well as user questions and answers in the q & a section . By subscribing to users that interest you, you can contemplate the activity of these users in your personal Habralent. You can also find out about new articles published by users on which you have subscribed and new comments of these users on Habr articles with the help of Habratrecker , which I will write about below.

I made a slideshow in the form of a GIF animation, on which I showed all sections of the user's profile, and also briefly described the information available in it (frame rate - 1 slide / 10 seconds):

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If the frame rate seems to be very fast or, on the contrary, too slow, you can view each frame of the slideshow separately, simply by clicking on the slide names that I will give below:


Under the user's Nickname, Karma and Rating there are 3 buttons that lead to different sections of the profile - Profile , His and Subscribers (in your profile instead of the section of Him you will find My section).

By clicking on the Profile section, 2 Whois subsections and Favorites appear under it (in the case of your profile, in addition to these 2 subsections, you will also find a subsection with invites to invite new users to Habr, as well as the Reset button - which allows you once on Habré to reset their Karma).

  • Whois - information about the user, including: the user's place in the Habralyuds Rating , the country in which this Habrazhitel lives (if he indicated it, of course), the user's achievements on HabrĂ©, brief information about the user's interests, his goals and objectives in life (in a word all that the user has found necessary to write about himself ), the user's email, personal website, social networks and online communities in which the user participates, as well as coordinates where the user can be found using internet messengers (available eager services: Delicious.com , Dirty.ru , Facebook , Flickr , Github , Google+ , Google Talk, ICQ, Jabber, Leprosorium , LiveJournal , Skype, Twitter, Vkontakte and My Circle . By filling in your profile, add links to communities, blogs, and personal sites can be in Settings under Location : Settings -) I have ).

    Also on Whois, you will find the interests of the user (which you can click on to find other Habrazhiteli with similar interests), a list of thematic blogs and blogs of IT companies the user subscribes to, as well as a list of blogs of those companies in which the user works or with whom works closely (field I work :) .

    In addition to everything listed, in the section of the Whois profile you will also find the time of user registration on Habré, Nick Habrazhitel, who invited this user to Habr, as well as a list of those who were invited by the user himself.

  • Favorites - a subsection of the profile in which you will find topics , questions and comments that the user deemed useful.

    In the ribbon of selected topics, you can click on the full text of your favorite Habrastaty, go to any of the Hubs in which this article was published, see the number of views, find out how many Habrazhiteli added this article to your favorites, and also add it to your personal list favorites. Also, under each article from the ribbon of selected topics, the total number of comments (in red) and the number of new messages (in green) are displayed. For more information on what else you can do in this subsection of the Habr's user profile, see the slide .

    In selected questions you can see the question of Karma, the Hub in which this question is asked, you can find out who the author of this question is and, if necessary, go to his profile on a click, find out the number of responses from Habr residents to this question (as well as thanks to the innovation with checkboxes by the presence of the green flag There is a solution , to find out whether there was a solution to this issue that satisfied the questioner). For details on what and how you can do with selected questions of the user you are interested in, see the slide .

    In the selected comments you can read the text of the comments themselves, which the user liked, using the red indicator to see the total number of comments left in the topic where this comment appeared; see the karma of selected comments, go to the article in which the comment was left (or directly to the comment, by clicking # opposite the site of interest), look in more detail on the slide .

  • His - subsection of the user profile, in which you will find his posts (articles, instructions, reviews and other materials posted by the user on Habr), questions asked by the user on HabrĂ©, answers to questions of other Habrazhiteley, as well as user comments on Habrastatyam. In your profile, instead of His subsection, you will find My subsection, in which you will also find posts, questions, answers and comments, but in addition to this, you will also have a subsection of Notes in your profile, in which you can read your notes about Habr's users whom you have noted for yourself by some parameters (You can add a note about a user in his profile in the Whois section under the user's place in Habrarating). Also, in my profile, in the subsection of Mine, there are Drafts for posts and questions, I personally understand the usefulness of such a chip, although I haven’t worked with it practically yet, then I will probably describe this case separately.

    The possibilities available for interacting with posts, questions and user comments are similar to those already described above for Favorites . The subsection Answers is similar to the subsection Comments , about the capabilities of which I also wrote above. See also my slides (by clicking on their names) for a better understanding: Posts , Questions , Answers , Comments .

  • Subscribers are a sub-section of a user profile in which you can see who reads it, as well as who he reads himself. In the case of my profile, the subsections are called I read and read Me , the possibilities in the first and in the second case are completely similar. In addition, you can see the list of Habrazhiteli who are interested in the user whose profile you are in, and the list of those users who are interested in him, you can also subscribe to any of these users (move the mouse cursor to the right of Nick’s user and click the pop-up button Subscribe ). For greater clarity, see the slide on the topic of subscribers .


One of Habr's opportunities when creating posts is the ability to insert presentations (they are also slideshows with manual frame switching), uploaded to the Slideshare.Net service. Supported formats for presentations: ppt, pdf and some other types of documents. I made a presentation in which I described possible ways to interact with the Habr's user profile in pdf format and uploaded it to this service, I recommend watching it in full screen by stretching the width of the window so that one frame fits completely into the viewing area:



Read below about the possibilities of Habratreker and the features of working with this tool.
Using Habratrecker
Habratreker is a new Habr tool that allows you to track the appearance of comments in topics you are interested in, keep up to date with the latest articles, reviews and manuals posted by users on which you are subscribed, and also find out about what topics or comments you have been mentioned.

In order to subscribe to comments to an article on Habré through Habratreker , you need to go to the article of interest, scroll through the text of the article to the bottom and tick (by clicking the left mouse button) opposite the Track new -) item in the tracker :

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In order to get to Habratreker, you need to click the tracker button under Nick in the upper left corner of Habr:

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The green indicator to the right of this button shows the total number of comments in the topics for which you are subscribed, the actions of users for which you are subscribed (adding a post or question to your Favorites , publishing a post, creating a question and answering questions already asked), as well as mentions your Nick on Habré.

Turning to the tracker, you will see 3 sections: Posts , Subscribers and Mentions :

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The indicator next to the Posts tab shows the number of new comments in the topics to which you are subscribed.
Clicking on the Posts tab, below you will see a list of topics for which you subscribed via Tracker. Opposite each topic you will see the number of red - the indicator of the total number of comments in this topic, and next to it the number of green - the indicator of the number of new messages (if there are no new messages since your last visit in this topic, there will be no green indicator). In this tab, you can go to the profile of the user who created one of the topics to which you are subscribed, simply by clicking on his nickname (to the left of the name Habrastaty). You can also go to the article itself, or rather to the first new comment since your last visit, simply by clicking on the title of this topic.

Also, here you can mark with a few topics read (reset the indicator of new comments in the topic) or delete those topics that you are no longer interested in reading comments for. To do this, check the necessary topics with a check mark and then click the corresponding button below.

In the Subscribers tab you can see the latest activity of Habr's users you are following:

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In this part of the Tracker, the following user actions are displayed on which you are following:
adding an article or question to Favorites, creating a post or question, answering questions asked on Habré in q & a , as well as the participation of users you are subscribed to in Habrays .

In the Mentions tab, all posts, comments, questions, answers and events in which you were mentioned on Habré are displayed. I cannot show an example, because no one has yet mentioned me here with a kind or evil word.

Below read about the editor of messages on Habré.
Creating an article on Habré. Possibilities of the editor of messages on Habré
In order to create an article, review or manual on Habré, you need to go to the subsection Tape or Posts and press the orange button with a pencil on the left:

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Thanks to useful innovations, Habré now has flags that help to quickly determine the specifics of the post (the checkbox for training materials is pink, for translations of articles from foreign resources is orange, also in q & a questions , the user can mark the question with a green flag received a suitable response).

Having pressed the orange button with a pencil, you get to the Habr Message Editor . Here you need to choose from one to three thematic Habr blogs (Hubs) in which you want to post your material, choose the type of content being created ( post , translation , survey , event , question ), enter the name of your Habratopik, write the text of the article itself, and also add at least one tag (another name is a tag) characterizing the information that you decided to share with the Taras community. You can also enable the checkbox that indicates that the article you added is a learning material by activating the corresponding option next to the content type.

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Under the field for tags you will find a button to add an article to drafts ( To drafts ), a button to publish an article on Habré ( Publish ), as well as a Preview button, which very significantly helps in creating readable and informative posts.

On Habré to highlight important information, you can use bold , italic , you can underline and strike out the text (the corresponding buttons are to the left of the Code button, which is used to ignore html-tags in the selected text fragment).

Also, here you can use 3 types of headers that look like this:

Headline

Subtitle
Subtitle


In the Lists switch: you can select an unnumbered list ( UL LI ) or a numbered list ( OL LI ). Both types of lists work in a similar way: create a list in the message text, placing each list item on a separate line, then select the list area and, selecting the appropriate type of list in the switch, click on it.
Example of using lists:

Top Hubs:
  1. Information Security
  2. Dura lex
  3. Web development

Interesting companies:

And this is the code of the same lists, which is displayed in the Habr's message editor:
<b> :</b> <ol> <li><a href="http://habrahabr.ru/hub/infosecurity/"> </a></li> <li><a href="http://habrahabr.ru/hub/Dura_Lex/">Dura Lex</a></li> <li><a href="http://habrahabr.ru/hub/webdev/">-</a></li> </ol> <b> :</b> <ul> <li><a href="http://habrahabr.ru/company/tm/"> </a></li> <li><a href="http://habrahabr.ru/company/intel/">Intel</a></li> <li><a href="http://habrahabr.ru/company/mosigra/"></a></li> </ul> 


To the right of the lists you will find a tool for inserting program code written in different programming languages ​​( Source ), it is also possible to select some types of text markup. This feature is useful because it automatically highlights in color the important operators of the language you have chosen.
You can choose from the following list: Bash, C #, C ++, CSS, Diff, HTML, XML, Java, JavaScript, PHP, Perl, Python, Ruby, SQL, 1C, ActionScript, Apache, Axapta, CMake, CoffeeScript, DOS, Delphi , Django, Erlang, Erlang REPL, Go, Haskell, Lisp, Lua, MEL, Markdown, Matlab, Nginx, Objective-C, Rust, Scala, Smalltalk, TeX, VBScript, VHDL, Vala.

To the right of the Source tool are the buttons for selecting the font, which I already wrote about above, followed by the citation button (it works like this: select the quoted fragment in the text of the post, click the Quote button). The cited message looks something like this:
In one entertaining political science guide, the rules were depicted as balcony railing: if they are not there, then you can fall. To protect users from accidental falls, there is a certain railing on the site. In a sense, the rules .


About the Code tool I already wrote, also, I used this tool below to show how the application of useful tags looks in the Habr editor.

The following buttons are located to the right of the Code tool:
  • Habrayuzer is the button that clicks a clickable link that leads to the user profile, whose nickname you specify. Mention your nickname on HabrĂ© you can see in the Tracker , the main features of which have already been written above.
  • Link is a tool for adding a link to the text created by Habratopik. It works extremely simple: select a piece of text to which you want to attach a link, click the Link button and enter the URL .
  • Image is a tool for adding images to Habr, works similarly to the Link, only here you need to enter not an arbitrary link, but a direct link to the image.
  • Video is a tool for adding online video to the text. On Habr you can add videos from the following sites: YouTube , RuTube , Vimeo , Ya.Video and Video.Mail.ru .
  • Habrakat is a button that allows you to hide some of the article’s information under the Read more button.


Most of the tools described in this section above can be used in two ways:
  • select the message text fragment, then press the button - then the tag will frame the selected text;
  • just press the button - in this case only the tag is added.


And one more useful button for the Habr message editor is html-tags . Clicking this button opens the list of all html tags available on Habré.
It is convenient to use this chip as follows: open the tag list by clicking the html-tag button, then copy the appropriate tag with the Ctrl + C key combination, paste this tag next to the post fragment to which you want to apply this tag, and finally with the Ctrl key combinations + X (cut text) and Ctrl + V (paste text) paste the desired message text between the opening and closing tags.

The list of tags available on Habré looks like this:

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How and for what each of the available tags is used, you can read in the description of the tags directly below them, I will show with examples how to use some of them in the text of Khabratopik.

An example of using the Source tag ( quick sorting implemented in Ruby):
 class Array def qsort return self.dup if size <=1 l,r = partition {|x| x <= self.first} c,l = l.partition {|x| x == self.first} l.qsort + c + r.qsort end end 


I already used video insertion on Habr at the beginning of this post (a small video instruction on Habr's features). In my case, the code of the video that I inserted into Habr looks like this:



Another useful feature of Habr is the ability to insert slideshows into messages . This makes it possible to save the useful space of the article (one slideshow instead of a dozen pictures or photos). I already used this tool in this manual, see the Habr's user profile section and the information available in it .

On Habr you can insert slideshows uploaded to Slideshare.net service. At Slideshare.net, after registration, it is possible to store your presentations in ppt format, and also to show pdf documents in the form of presentations.

To add a slideshow uploaded to Slideshare.net, after uploading a presentation to this site, go to your profile, select a suitable presentation from the ones you uploaded to this service, then click the Share button in the lower left corner and copy from the presentation URL pop-up.

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This URL needs to be framed with the slideshow tag, in my case, the slideshow insertion code (the subject of the slideshow is the capabilities of the Hub user profile) looks like this:



In addition to the ability to insert slideshows on Habr from the site Slideshare.net, you can also insert slideshows in the form of gif-animation. Inserting a GIF on Habr is completely similar to inserting a regular image. Slideshow format gif with a suitable delay time for each frame, you can do with the program Ulead GIF Animator 5 , I recommend to upload such slideshows (as well as static images for articles on Habré) on Habrastorage.org .

Another useful tool Habra - the ability to insert in posts and comments link to the user profile using his Nick. For example, in order to insert a link to the user profile DIHALT , who writes interesting articles on electronic freelance, I used the following code:

DIHALT

Another useful feature of Habr is the Spoiler tool (on forums there is a similar tool called Cut). Spoiler allows you to hide some of the information under the text, when clicked, hidden information is displayed below this text.
You can look at an example of using the Spoiler in this article; I just hid the sections of this topic under the spoiler, the code looks something like this:

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Sometimes, information blocks are conveniently separated by a horizontal line . On Habré, too, there is a tool that solves this problem:






In articles on Habré you can also insert tables . The purpose of the tags for this task is described in detail in the description of the html tags. Here I will show an example of how the table added to Habratopik may look:
tr1, th1 - Design, graphics, soundtr1, th2 - Databasestr1, th3 - Other
tr2, td1 - Web Designtr2, td2 - MySQLtr2, td3 - DIY or DIY
tr3, td1 - Interfacestr3, td2 - Data Miningtr3, td3 - Electronics for beginners


The code for this table is:


tr1,th1 - , , tr1,th2 - tr1,th3 -
tr2,td1 - - tr2,td2 - MySQL tr2,td3 - DIY
tr3,td1 - tr3,td2 - Data Mining tr3,td3 -

tr1,th1 - , , tr1,th2 - tr1,th3 -
tr2,td1 - - tr2,td2 - MySQL tr2,td3 - DIY
tr3,td1 - tr3,td2 - Data Mining tr3,td3 -

tr1,th1 - , , tr1,th2 - tr1,th3 -
tr2,td1 - - tr2,td2 - MySQL tr2,td3 - DIY
tr3,td1 - tr3,td2 - Data Mining tr3,td3 -

tr1,th1 - , , tr1,th2 - tr1,th3 -
tr2,td1 - - tr2,td2 - MySQL tr2,td3 - DIY
tr3,td1 - tr3,td2 - Data Mining tr3,td3 -

tr1,th1 - , , tr1,th2 - tr1,th3 -

tr2,td1 - - tr2,td2 - MySQL tr2,td3 - DIY
tr3,td1 - tr3,td2 - Data Mining tr3,td3 -

tr1,th1 - , , tr1,th2 - tr1,th3 -

tr2,td1 - - tr2,td2 - MySQL tr2,td3 - DIY
tr3,td1 - tr3,td2 - Data Mining tr3,td3 -

tr1,th1 - , , tr1,th2 - tr1,th3 -

tr2,td1 - - tr2,td2 - MySQL tr2,td3 - DIY
tr3,td1 - tr3,td2 - Data Mining tr3,td3 -

tr1,th1 - , , tr1,th2 - tr1,th3 -

tr2,td1 - - tr2,td2 - MySQL tr2,td3 - DIY
tr3,td1 - tr3,td2 - Data Mining tr3,td3 -

tr1,th1 - , , tr1,th2 - tr1,th3 -

tr2,td1 - - tr2,td2 - MySQL tr2,td3 - DIY
tr3,td1 - tr3,td2 - Data Mining tr3,td3 -

tr1,th1 - , , tr1,th2 - tr1,th3 -

tr2,td1 - - tr2,td2 - MySQL tr2,td3 - DIY
tr3,td1 - tr3,td2 - Data Mining tr3,td3 -

tr1,th1 - , , tr1,th2 - tr1,th3 -

tr2,td1 - - tr2,td2 - MySQL tr2,td3 - DIY
tr3,td1 - tr3,td2 - Data Mining tr3,td3 -

tr1,th1 - , , tr1,th2 - tr1,th3 -

tr2,td1 - - tr2,td2 - MySQL tr2,td3 - DIY
tr3,td1 - tr3,td2 - Data Mining tr3,td3 -

tr1,th1 - , , tr1,th2 - tr1,th3 -

tr2,td1 - - tr2,td2 - MySQL tr2,td3 - DIY
tr3,td1 - tr3,td2 - Data Mining tr3,td3 -


You can insert superscripts and subscripts into articles on Habré as follows:
8 ? , 0 0
8 ? , 0 0

Also, you can add abbreviations to the text of habratope, an example of using a tag that solves this problem is below:
FTP
FTP

As a result, when you hover the cursor over an abbreviation , readers can read how it stands for.

I have already shown the numbered and unnumbered lists above. On it the short description of opportunities of the editor of messages of Habr I will finish. As for me, everything is done very convenient and practical!
A few words about Karma and self-regulation on Habré
An amazing feature of Habr is the presence of the Karma system. Everything has karma - the users, the thematic blogs and blogs of companies working in the IT direction, the habratopics and comments, questions and answers to them.

Thanks to the excellent community that has formed over the entire existence of Habra, voting for honored Habra users determines the level of trust in this or that Habrastiat, each action of any Habr user entails consequences - incorrect behavior or poor quality information, or frankly harmful information entails voting most with a minus sign, at the same time, useful and necessary things are in the Top and actively quoted throughout the Internet.

A system with a high level of self-organization is always very good, and Habr is a self-organized community that can solve very serious tasks and remove unnecessary from the site automatically. The system of invitations and the responsibility of inviting the invitees is also a very useful and necessary feature.

About the laws of Habrakarma quite clearly and clearly written in the section of the directory Karma and Rating . Personally, I find Karma a very necessary and useful tool for balance and balance in the World in general and on Habré in particular.

On it I will complete the short overview of the functionality available on Habré, I hope, the information provided here will be for someone useful and will help to solve some practical tasks.

Source: https://habr.com/ru/post/160259/


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