I've been asked via email to explain how to repost an old Open Salon post so that it looks just as it originally appeared. Here's one way. It involves a bit of clicking around and such, but it's a straightforward process.

Click the More menu on the upper right part of an OS page, and choose Manage Posts. Scroll down until you find the old, unloved post that no one seemed to notice the first time around. Click the Edit button to its right. You'll now have access to the same tools you had when you originally created the post. On my system, there's a toolbar that looks like this:

Click the HTML icon in the middle of this toolbar. This will pop up a new window that contains a mess of text and formatting information. (If you'd like to understand what that's all about, you can type "OS tips" or "OS user manual" into the search box at the top of an OS page to find explanations, but you don't really need to unless you're interested.) Click somewhere in the middle of this text and then select it all. (On Windows, you can select everything by pressing Control-A, on a Mac, Command-A; you can also do this with Select All in your browser's Edit menu.) Copy what you've selected (Control-C on Windows, Command-C on a Mac, or Copy in your browser's Edit menu). Close the pop-up window by clicking the Cancel button at the bottom.

Now start a new post. You'll see the same toolbar; click the HTML icon again. You'll get another pop-up window, but this time it will be empty. Click in the middle of this empty box and then paste what you copied earlier (Control-V on Windows, Command-V on a Mac, or Paste in your browser's Edit menu). You should see that mess of text appear. This time, close the pop-up window by clicking the Update button at its bottom.

What you should see now is your original post, text, images, videos, and all, looking just as it did before you originally posted it. Add a catchy title that includes "REPOST", fix all the typos you missed the first time around, and post it.

 Happy recycling!