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• Thursday Tip: Get the Lingo!
  … we’ve got a Tips post that will help you out. Ravmail: Private messages (you can find these in the messages section of your Ravelry Notebook) are often called Ravmail. Earburn: If another Raveler uses our magic links with your username in the forums, you get a message with the subject “are your ears burning?” These messages are referred to as “earburns.” The List: The List is where we track our bug reports and feature requests. You can find it on the upper right of your Forums tab. It’s fun to …
• Using the text editor, formatting posts
  … while posting your reply If you are copying/pasting text and not doing one of the above, nothing will happen. Note that the forum post coding will differ from what has been typed when an earburn is created. Entering this text into a post will create a regular rather than magic link to a profile page and no earburn will be sent per cassidy’s post here. Changes to linking options include the use of @ to create links and the quick magic linking, which will offer suggestions as you type instead of …
• Glossary: Ravelry and Knit and Crochet Lingo/jargon and Acronyms
  … = Double-pointed needles. DS = 1) Destash - to sell unwanted yarn. 2) Dear Son - affectionate reference to one’s actual son. DW = Dear Wife. Affectionate reference to one’s actual wife. Dyelot = The number that identifies a particular batch of a colorway. Earburn = To create a magic link to a Raveler in a forum post, thereby triggering a private message (PM) that alerts them to that post. (Origin: The linkee receives a notice that starts with “Are your ears burning?…”) EB = The abbreviation for …
• Notebook: handspun section, spinning projects
  … as needed with the ‘add skein’ link. Notes: The standard Ravelry text editor applies to this box; see UsingTheTextEditor wiki page for tips. We can’t add images or magic links here; links will work but no one will get an earburn. Status: Choose the most applicable from the list in the dropdown. Satisfaction: These are the smiley faces to the right of the “Status” field. Choose the smiley face that most accurately represents your satisfaction with the project. Started & Finished …
• Community Eye Candy: Are Your Ears Burning?
  When you get magic linked in the Ravelry forums, you receive a message that says “Are your ears burning?” Many people therefore refer to a magic link as an “earburn”. These phrases made me look in the projects to see if there are some fun projects with ears, and boy are there! Here are a few I wanted to share. First off, some fun hats with ears. From left to right: Carajv’s Zvsi hat, annemariebb1’s Devil-cat hat and Plektou’s Red Fox Hood Cowl Next, a few cute stuffies with ears. From left …
• All About Ravelry Forums
  … , click on the Browse tab of the Forums page. From the Status dropdown list, choose Ignoring. Click the red ball in the final column for the thread you want and click on stop ignoring. If you ignore a thread, you won’t receive notice if someone earburns you in that thread. Mark Unread This option sets the thread back to unread status. Mark All Read This will mark all the threads visible in that view as read. It is not possible to mark all posts that ever happened in a group as read, but …
• notebook projects
  … the pattern, funny stories about working on the project, whatever you like. Project notes are entered with the standard Ravelry text editor. See UsingTheTextEditor wiki page for tips. You cannot include images, or magic-links, in the notes section: no one will be earburned to project notes. Please do not include pattern instructions in the project notes as a way to publish a pattern: projects should not be used to publish a pattern so it can be added to the Ravelry database. Please use a Ravelry …