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Continuing the discussion from Recruiting Desperation:
This reminds me of the /etc/bus article which was posted back in 2006, except that this time the idea grew into something that actually left the company…
Looking at the comments for that old article; I don't think the import/transfer/whatever went all that well:
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Weird. For a change it has nothing to do with Discourse, this is all in the Frontpage code.
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Filed under: Tricked into ANOTHER article thread, Why's that one unlisted with comments?
It's for an article which will be published somewhere next week. It should fix itself or not depending on @PaulaBean 's memory state and the Discourse servercooties.
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So as someone who doesn't really go to the front page, or near
Articles- how are people commenting on articles not published yet when the topic is unlisted? Some kind of Discofault?
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We auto-watch new threads in
Articles, so we get notifications as soon as @PaulaBean posts them
And as they're direct links, they always work ;)
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If you watch a category you also get notified about posts in unlisted topics in that category.
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And Discourse being Discourse means you get to see them post-unlisting because of the notification. Makes sense now.
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As @RaceProUK has said:
We auto-watch new threads in Articles, so we get notifications as soon as @PaulaBean posts them.
And as they're direct links, they always work
You could call it a bug that people get creation notifications for a shortly-thereafter-unlisted topic, but we like it as a feature.EDIT:
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Sometimes if you refresh at the right time (or @PaulaBean works brillantly) you get to see the article.
You can also do what the others are telling you and watch the category but that is boring and less luck/fate dependent!Fun thing about this is: You can comment in an unlisted topic just fine... Thats how people post in them.
Filed Under: You also used to be able to follow @PaulaBean and look on her "Posts"-Feed. Not sure if this still works
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@Kuro said:
You also used to be able to follow @PaulaBean
Following a useriswas a feature?@Kuro is just a master stalker.
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You can also do what the others are telling you and watch the category but that is boring and less luck/fate dependent!
Would also involve me unmuting the category.
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*goes to see if you can set a category to watched and muted*
*isdisappointedrelieved
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Exactly what I was about to do, so cheers for saving me the effort.
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If you watch a category you also get notified about posts in unlisted topics in that category.
And that's why I recommend TL4+ users to create unlisted topics in "Turn Left" before Jeffing them to the category they intend to use.
That way, watching is a lot less of an issue - unless you want to create unlisted topics that are hidden from other TL4+ users ...
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Welp, apparently you didn't cause enough ruckus over at meta.d to push this feature through...
https://meta.discourse.org/t/follow-user-feature-yay-or-nay/26981But that doesn't mean that SockBot can't simply follow a user by stalking some weird .json-file... So make of that what you will.
@Kuro is just a master stalker.
Is that a praise or an insult? Oo
Would also involve me unmuting the category.
Muting categories was already too much work for me, so I can't blame you!
unless you want to create unlisted topics that are hidden from other TL4+ users ...
If you want to create topics you want to hide from the users with the highest trust level then you are doing something wrongtmFiled Under: Meh
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Not sure if this still works
I can't see anything about the pizza thread on her profile, so I think it doesn't.
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I shall wait in front of your house, hidden from your view until you show me subtle signs regarding on whether or not that was a praise!
Filed Under: Totally not stalking you, though! No, sir!
so I think it doesn't.
I seemed to remember, Sam saying they fixed that at some point but wasn't sure. Thanks for verifying!
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Welp, apparently you didn't cause enough ruckus over at meta.d to push this feature through...https://meta.discourse.org/t/follow-user-feature-yay-or-nay/26981
It was (correctly) closed as a dupe of this; two years, and there's still no firm decision either way…
@Kuro said:But that doesn't mean that SockBot can't simply follow a user by stalking some weird .json-file... So make of that what you will.
It's definitely possible; the MobileEmoji module tracks my posts to replace emoji with Disco-emoji. Of course, that's only possible in my cyberparts, as it needs edit permissions.
For the record, and I think I speak for all the bot-makers here when I say this:
DO NOT USE A BOT TO STALK A USERI have been told someone did that to Blakey at one point; IIRC, it was an auto-liker.
It was wrong to do that.
And if I suspect someone is using a bot in such an underhanded manner, I will not hesitate to report them to the forum staff.
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I have been told someone did that to Blakey at one point; IIRC, it was an auto-liker.
First iteration of @LikeBot
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As @RaceProUK has said:
We auto-watch new threads in Articles, so we get notifications as soon as @PaulaBean posts them.
And as they're direct links, they always work
You could call it a bug that people get creation notifications for a shortly-thereafter-unlisted topic, but we like it as a feature.EDIT:
'dWouldn't really say it's a bug. Since first the topic is created (and everybody interested gets a notification), and only then is it unlisted, the alternative is to have magic disappearing notifications.
Or an option to create an unlisted topic outright, but that's a FR, to be filed to the
paper shredderFR box.
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And Discourse being Discourse means you get to see them post-unlisting because of the notification. Makes sense now.
actually you can't create a topic unlisted with discourse. so paula creates the topic then immediately unlists it, but since it was listed when it was created our watch status stuck ;-)
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And if I suspect someone is using a bot in such an underhanded manner, I will not hesitate to report them to the forum staff.
if i find someone is using sockbot code to do that the admins will be the least of their worries.
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actually you can't create a topic unlisted with discourse
I thought it was a setting (that is off/on/whatever here) but it doesn't apply to admins (who have accidentally made topics in unlisted).
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Ah. Serves me right for replying when tired.
I guess, though, they consider unlisting topics as a moderation reaction, so it makes a bit of sense to not allow making new topics unlisted.
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actually you can't create a topic unlisted with discourse
I know. I still think that leaving the notification behind when a topic is unlisted is silly.
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That way, watching is a lot less of an issue - unless you want to create unlisted topics that are hidden from other TL4+ users ...
You can Jeff PMs though, can't you? Or is that just the individual messages that can be Jeffed out to a thread of their own?
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You can Jeff PMs though, can't you? Or is that just the individual messages that can be Jeffed out to a thread of their own?
Much the same as any other topic - select individual messages or the whole lot:
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You can Jeff into existing
PM threads too... didn't realise that before.
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Imagine the panic if the entire /t/1000 was jeffed into a private message between @nagesh and @spectateswamp...
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Imagine the panic if the entire /t/1000 was jeffed into a private message between @nagesh and @spectateswamp...
And the server cooties
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That way, watching is a lot less of an issue - unless you want to create unlisted topics that are hidden from other TL4+ users ...
Staff don't have to Watch a category to see hidden topics. They are always visible to us.
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They are always visible to us.
/me is a little jelly
but not jelly enough to have any desire whatsoever to be admin of any forum again....
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