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Re: Posting Policy Changes
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lugnet.admin.general
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Mon, 25 Apr 2005 22:15:57 GMT
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In lugnet.admin.general, Larry Pieniazek wrote:
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In lugnet.admin.general, Jeff Stembel wrote:
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First, thank you for approving the change. Perhaps automation is in order
for this, if at least for paid members? Maybe assign the duty of checking
for this type of thing to a specific person? I find it rather odd I can
change my posting setup information on any number of public forums in a
matter of minutes and yet have to wait almost three days here.
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We’ve had a lot of trouble with spoofed IDs, and also with emails that were
not possible to spam decode, or not possible for LUGNET itself to parse
properly, which is not really related to whether someone has made a donation
or not.
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I am well aware of the issues in the past that molded the current shape of
posting procedures; I was here at the time if you recall. However, they are in
the past. I felt they were too extreme then and are too extreme now. However,
I wouldn’t feel the need to voice such if the system *worked.*
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Todd took the decision that a human needs to look at each one to decide if
it’s legit. I am not going to comment on whether it’s automatable or not,
although I think it would be an interesting science project, codewise to get
one that has less false positives than a human would.
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If that is the determination and it isn’t getting done, then someone should be
specifically tasked with looking at them in a timely manner. If not, situations
like this will occur as people keep thinking, “oh, someone else is doing it.”
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Second, was it really necessary to track in the mud from the other thread to
this totally unrelated and very simple request?
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Track in the mud? I was merely saying why I hadn’t gotten to it, I have
limited time and that’s how I’ve been spending it lately.
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Compare these two statements:
I’ve been so busy reading all the posts saying what a terrible person I am and
how everything I do is bad for LUGNET that I haven’t had a chance to do
approvals for a few days
I’ve been so busy that I haven’t had a chance to do approvals for a few days
Was the bolded text truly necessary based on what the request was? I thought it
was totally unprofessional to bring other unrelated and ongoing issues into it,
hence my original post.
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But for that matter, why even have someone post about it in the first place?
Why not just email the admins about it? Did you try that first? If so, I
didn’t get it...
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I emailed the Lugnet Feedback email address, which apparently still goes to
Todd. Having been absent from the site for a long time, both in posting and
reading (besides items specifically linked), I was unaware of many of the recent
changes. I knew Todd had handed over at least some control to other people, but
I didn’t know who or what duties for the most part. There was no specific email
address that I could find for posting setup issues/concerns, and to be perfectly
honest, I was fed up with waiting for something that in my opinion should have
been taken care of before the end of the day on Friday. So I took the *drastic*
action of asking a friend to post a polite query in the admin.general group,
since I was under the impression that was where polite queries to the admins
about general issues were supposed to go.
Jeff
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Message has 1 Reply:
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| (...) What address did you mail? We have been having technical problems with some addresses. if it was actually feedback (at) ... then ya, that may not go anywhere other than the owner. Per this page (URL) it's not really the right place for (...) (20 years ago, 25-Apr-05, to lugnet.admin.general)
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| (...) We've had a lot of trouble with spoofed IDs, and also with emails that were not possible to spam decode, or not possible for LUGNET itself to parse properly, which is not really related to whether someone has made a donation or not. Todd took (...) (20 years ago, 25-Apr-05, to lugnet.admin.general)
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