Help:Opinion Clubhouses

An Opinion Library is a unique feature of ArmchairGM. The Library is a way for individual users to collect and display their opinions. The Library acts as a personal repository of that user's works.

Creating an Opinion Library
Creating an Opinion Library is rather simple. Edit all of your opinion articles and to put them in a special category, such as "Opinions by Username," where, naturally, "Username" is your username. Simply put on your opinion's page. You can even come up with a catchy title, like "Category:On the DL." (That one is taken.)

After saving that change, you will see a red link in the upper right-hand corner of all of your opinion pages. The link will read whatever you called your library, be it "Opinions by Username," "MyName's Opinions," or "On the DL." Click that link.

You will be brought to an edit box that should be blank. First, type at the top of that box. Yes, use the weird squiggly brackets and proper capitalization. Putting these magic words into your page will do two things: one, it will link up your library with everyone else's; and two, it will put a box on your page asking others not to edit it.

Personalizing an Opinion Library
Assuming you properly add your opinions to your Opinion Library's category, the web engine will automatically catalogue your opinions in a subsection at the bottom of your page. But you can have the page do more.

Other than placing the tag atop your page, you are free to add whatever you would like to your Library's page. Some suggested additions:
 * Information about you, the author.
 * A way to contact you.
 * Links to your favorite opinions, be it yours or those of others.
 * Links to Opinion Libraries you recommend.
 * Links to pages of your favorite player, team, sport, etc.
 * Pictures.
 * A unique color scheme.

We also suggest that you add a snippet of code that allows the web engine to automatically display your most recently updated and/or most recently added opinions.

To have the page display your 10 most recently edited opinions, put the following into your page, replacing "YOUR LIBRARY'S NAME" with the name of your library:

For example, if your library were named "On the DL," you would insert the following:

To make the page display more or fewer opinions, adjust the "count= 10" line, accordingly.

For recently created opinions, use: