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From: Aaron Wolf <wolftune@riseup.net>
To: libreplanet-discuss@libreplanet.org
Subject: Re: We've launched a new member forum!
Date: Tue, 16 Oct 2018 09:01:00 -0700	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <ff6b6a45-08e1-7319-d359-7cc2e7093a3d@riseup.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <bde0a5eb-7103-67a1-05dd-be0aacbded78@fsf.org>

On 10/16/2018 07:59 AM, Andrew Engelbrecht wrote:
> On 10/15/2018 07:01 PM, Aaron Wolf wrote:
>> I signed up and was posting a few things in the feedback portion about
>> setting up the forum itself. I only posted a couple things before I got
>> this message:
>>
>> "You’ve reached the maximum number of topics a new user can create on
>> their first day. Please wait 23 hours before trying again."
>>
>> That setting can be tweaked by admins. Doesn't it make sense to make
>> this limit a lot higher (or even turn it off) as long as the forum
>> requires an FSF membership? There's little chance of random trolls or
>> spammers getting an FSF log-in (which is what the
>> max-topics-for-new-members is about).
>>
>> Alternatively, maybe someone could at least bump me to trust-level 1 (up
>> from 0) so I can post the thoughtful forum-feedback topic I have sitting
>> as a draft in my browser? Otherwise, I could wait until tomorrow, but
>> I'll have to be careful not to lose the stuff I just typed.
>>
>> Anyway, cheers!
> 
> Hello Aaron,
> 
> Thanks for letting us know about that! This is something we definitely
> want to fix. It looks like new members after the 50 first members were
> set to trust level 0, so I bumped that to 1, which should stick.
> 
> Are you sure that you originally had trust level 0? If you started with
> trust level 1, then we might want to bump the starting level to 2,
> because we trust our members, and so far there have been no complaints
> about spam or inappropriate messages.
> 
> Thanks, : )
> Andrew
> 

I don't know if I can check my own trust level as a non-admin.

Incidentally, if it were possible (I've asked about it and not yet
worked out a solution on our forum), I'd want the "read guidelines"
(i.e. the CoC / safe-spaces policy) badge to be a requirement for even
FSF members before we get more regular privileges.

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  reply	other threads:[~2018-10-16 16:04 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 6+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2018-10-15 21:22 We've launched a new member forum! Andrew Engelbrecht
2018-10-15 21:58 ` Connor Doherty
2018-10-15 23:01   ` Aaron Wolf
2018-10-16 14:59     ` Andrew Engelbrecht
2018-10-16 16:01       ` Aaron Wolf [this message]
2018-10-16 14:31   ` Andrew Engelbrecht

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