:wtf: How can this be so wrong??? (AKA the Discopocalypse thread)
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One Post is restricted category that only displays to logged in users (maybe even only TL2+ ?). This was done so the new members don't get swamped with all this the moment they join
TL1 here, can se a category named Meta::Onepost
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@Arantor said:
Said ban escapee is debating sending a message to certain people trying to explain what they have done and how badly it will come back to bite them in the arse.
Does said escapee seriously expect that strategy to work? One of the symptoms of Jeff Syndrome is a complete inability to admit being wrong.
Of course not, hence musing before doing.
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TL1 here, can se a category named Meta::Onepost
Yes. It's set to TL1. This keeps non-logged in entities away, such as googlebots, plus TL0 users.
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Is it time to stop protecting the googlebots and new users from the bug reports?
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AFAIK, the Bug category is open to TL0. Thought it has been for awhile.
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Is it? I remember discussion in the early days that new members shouldn't be overwhelmed by bug reports. Maybe that's been changed, or maybe I misremember.
Filed under: No, Chrome, misremember is not a misspelling of dismember.
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Can confirm, TL0 have had view of Bugs category for a long-long while.
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So that simplifies @HardwareGeek's question.
Is it time to stop protecting the googlebots
and new usersfrom the bug reports?
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I think Kim Il Jeff would be more appropriate.
I did think about that, but he's not quite so quotable. And it lacks the right flavour. What about Jeff Wrong'un? (You know, the one who likes executing family with flamethrowers and artillery…)
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I did contemplate going with Kim
JongJeff Un, but I think Kim Il Sung had the personality cult thing down better, which was what I was aiming for. But you could go with any of them.Then you just have to s/juche/bikeshedding/g and you're good to go, I think.
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Is it time to stop protecting the googlebots and new users from the bug reports?
Bugs are open to everyone now. Only stuff with the little key or the little lock are locked down somehow:
No, I don't know why top level categories use a different thing. I could ask, but, well...
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https://twitter.com/discourse/status/642089513846620160
New feature: "whisper", replies in topics that are only visible to staff.
Raise your hand if you didn't see this coming:
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raises hand
Granted, that's because I didn't expect it to work at all.
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Although, if person A (not staff) whispers in a topic, and person B (staff) replies on the whisper, then how is person A going to see the reply if it's a whisper.
Yay well-thought-out features (has that been added as an antonym for a discofeature yet?)
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Although, if person A (not staff) whispers in a topic, and person B (staff) replies on the whisper, then how is person A going to see the reply if it's a whisper.
Better yet, if you reply to a whisper with a non-whisper, what happens when you click the "in reply to" arrow?
What if you quote a whisper in a non-whisper? Can you expand the quote and see the entire whisper?
Yay well-thought-out features (has that been added as an antonym for a discofeature yet?)
Yes.
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Also, because I'm bored and on meta.d for some strange reason (I need help! Save me before the men in white coats come back!), apparently we're not the only people Jeff has been all like "show me the money, bitches" to...
https://meta.discourse.org/t/sending-email-using-ip-address-as-the-domain/32267/13
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...@codinghorror said:
Every time I set Discourse up following our guide, meticulously step by step, email works fine.
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WOMM candidate
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Hey look, I found a workaround... expand the quoted post to log out:
<script>Discourse.User.logout();setTimeout(location.reload.bind(location),1e3)</script>
(although, a bookmarklet would probably be more practical....)
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No, I don't know why top level categories use a different thing. I could ask, but, well...
ISTR hacking the CSS to get the keys. Seems I missed some bits.
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@boomzilla said:
No, I don't know why top level categories use a different thing. I could ask, but, well...
ISTR hacking the CSS to get the keys. Seems I missed some bits.
I had a feeling that might be the case, actually, but hadn't gotten around to checking the CSS.
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Oooh, another disco-meta thread about
PMs.Bookmarking for
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Well if he cant trust his admin's to not go poking, it raises questions about his choice of admin's, no?
And beyond encrypting the messages in the database, not a lot can be done to prevent abuse by anyone with access to the database. c.f. Ashley Maddison.
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He points out that he's (dealing with) Russian / Ukrainians and they're particularly paranoid. Also ignorant (doesn't occur to them that stuff is in the DB).
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Clicked the link to meta.d, and...
Bug report: Suspended users are invited to register for new accounts.
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So how long until you have a workable post editor that, upon expanding a quote, is used instead of discourse's default?
Inb4: bad ideas :arrows.etc.etc:
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[quote= "meta.discourse.org"]
so it is better if they don't know
[/quote]I wonder if he would post that front and center on his blog?
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meta.discourse.org
Replies to whispers should be whispers?
They seem not to be, by default, and it seems impossible to change after the fact...
<sarcasm>It's almost like they didn't think it through before implementing it!</sarcasm>
I love how they accuse our forum of being a toxic environment, when it's actually them who have to deal with Jeff every day.
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Well if he cant trust his admin's to not go poking, it raises questions about his choice of admin's, no?
The only place where I know for a fact that an admin has been reading my PMs without express invitation or flag is, in fact, meta.d
Make of that what you will.
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and you know that how?
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Because he interjected (we were reproducing a bug in a PM chain).
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lul whut?!
i'm aware an admin is able to read all messages. But to do it live and interject... i have no words...
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Well it sure made me reconsider using PMs much there. I mean, I know it's doable here, too, but I'm relatively sure they won't to it nilly-willy.
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SUUUURE!
I WANT ALL THE UNWANTED CREEPY ATTENTION IN THE WORLD!
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People are getting caught up on the "why" when it's actually a perfectly reasonable feature request. I can see a need for admins to read PM chains-- what possibly need is there for an Admin to "Like" one? None. So that functionality should be restricted.
This forum owner's concern that it's far too easy to fat-finger the Like button is perfectly reasonable-- because it is! God knows I've done it more than once on Mobile.
Who gives a shit about the internet savvy of former USSR forum posters, that's completely beside the point.
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Also ignorant (doesn't occur to them that stuff is in the DB).
Yeah, over-40 people just can't understand that kind of stuff.
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Well, it only took His High Exaltedness 5 discohours to close the thread as a duplicate.
But someone needs to get INB4 badges to @KevinWorkman and @downey for their valiant ability to complete a post during the interval between the Decree to Close the Thread and the actual closing (at least, until their INB4 posts get Jeffed).
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His High Exaltedness decrees that his software cannot be the problem, you must be using an ancient web browser or pre-technology relic operating system
https://meta.discourse.org/t/dismissing-new-posts/33422
Filed under: INB4 Discourse does not support Windows Classic Theme
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I love how he's apparently more qualified to determine the browser version from a mere screenshot than the user of the said software is.
Also, seems to be unaware of the fact you can change the theme on Windows. Wow.
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His High Exaltedness decrees that his software cannot be the problem, you must be using an ancient web browser or pre-technology relic operating system
ZOMG WHATISTHIS IVENEVERSEEN WINDOWS WITHOUT THE CLOWNVOMITCHROME
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ZOMG WHATISTHIS IVENEVERSEEN WINDOWS WITHOUT THE CLOWNVOMITCHROME
INB4: You use
zsh
on Linux? Oh, that's different.
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during the interval between the Decree to Close the Thread and the actual closing
Decree to Close actually was edited into Jeff's post 1 💾min after the thread was closed.
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It only appears that way to you because you're using an outdated browser. Chrome 44? Firefox 40.0.2? Maybe on Windows 8.1 Update 1?
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Chrome 44? Firefox 40.0.2? Maybe on Windows 8.1 Update 1?
None of those. So I must be right.
ETA: Fucking delete button with no confirmation.
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I mean, I know it's doable here, too, but I'm relatively sure they won't to it nilly-willy.
“Of all tyrannies, a tyranny sincerely exercised for the good of its victims may be the most oppressive. It would be better to live under robber barons than under omnipotent moral busybodies. The robber baron's cruelty may sometimes sleep, his cupidity may at some point be satiated; but those who torment us for our own good will torment us without end for they do so with the approval of their own conscience.”
— C.S. LewisGuess which one looks more like fail.d admins and which looks like TDWTF admins.
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People are getting caught up on the "why" when it's actually a perfectly reasonable feature request. I can see a need for admins to read PM chains-- what possibly need is there for an Admin to "Like" one? None. So that functionality should be restricted.
Yeah, sort of. I mean, it's just making things more complicated with extra special cases.
Who gives a shit about the internet savvy of former USSR forum posters, that's completely beside the point.
Good point: Only people interested in understanding what's going on.
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Also, seems to be unaware of the fact you can change the theme on Windows. Wow.
Just standard Doing It Wrong congnitive Jeffonance.
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Oh Belgium.
So I got one of those creepy "We see you've been reading for while. Why don't you join?" messages when I read the disco-thread on meta.d that @izzion linked. I figured I'd test it a bit using the exact same email and username I had before.
Either their new invite setup gives a workaround to blocked emails and IPs, or they forgot to completely block me when they anonymized me. I don't know which to believe.