Soap Box Forum Access Changes

[Brac]

If they do, the posts will be deleted or moved to the SoapBox, where they won't be able to participate in their own discussion, but so be it.

Infrequent posters tend not to be too big of an issue in any case, because, after all, they're infrequent posters.

It all seems a bit like Alice in Wonderland (Alice in APUG?) but why am I worrying, it's all academic as far as I am concerned.

 

[mark]

I thought the soap box was not supposed to show up in the recent posts? It is showing up in mine.

 

[Ole]

I made 3 posts to a recent thread which was moved to the soapbox after my first post.

The second post took about 1/2 hour to appear there. It was in limbo while it was being 'inspected'.

The third has not appeared yet and it has been 12 hours. Now, I suspect that either the inspector 'censored' it, or it was lost, or you guys are very busy. That is certainly acceptable in any case, but I felt that if 'censored' the poster should be informed, and if lost somehow, you moderators should know that something went wrong.

PE

"What went wrong" is that the moderation is through a separate login - a separate window and a different address - and we don't go in there very often. I know I rarely do, but admit I should try to check in more often.

I've "validated" them now. Will check there later today, too...

 

[Photo Engineer]

Ole;

Thanks. There is obviously no rush. It is a matter of helping you insure that things go right and just getting used to something new.

PE

 

[David A. Goldfarb]

I thought the soap box was not supposed to show up in the recent posts? It is showing up in mine.

Hmmm....I thought so too. Maybe that idea hasn't been implemented or caused other problems, so Sean may have turned it off. If you don't want it in your recent posts, you can set it to "ignore."

I think I need to set up a dummy account, because sometimes I'm not sure what the site looks like to someone who isn't a moderator.

 

[Flotsam]

I think I need to set up a dummy account

C'mon David. Don't be so hard on yourself. You're plenty smart enough to have a regular account.


Sorry. I tried but I just couldn't resist

 

[gnashings]

Lets see - this is a community of people with a common interest - not the only interest! That is why every forum I have ever been on has a Lounge area (as does APUG) for off-topic discussion. Now, APUG takes it a step further to avoid offending people and provide a place were we can vent or discuss controversial issues. Sean has gone to such lengths to make it as un-intrusive as possible that I hardly think anyone who is not looking for it could be offended by it. There is the new restrictions, there is the ignore feature... and then there is the simple fail safe: you don't like it, don't partake.
I find opinions like "I was considering leaving APUG because of the soap box" to be the most absurd, childish whining imaginable. If you're that self-righteous, you will find fault with something, sooner or later. And people like that won't stop with the deletion of the Soap Box - they need "projects" to validate themselves - if its not the 'Box, it will be something else.
I don't recall ever being dragged into the Soap Box against my will - and if I wanted to, I could not see it at all. I think the simple advice to people who spend way too much time on this issue is: look in the mirror! Your litle crusades make you no better than the people you condemn. Let it go, get a life, do something else, elsewhere - there is a lot to see on APUG, many different forums - go nuts, have fun, learn something, contribute - give your over-developed sense of moral and intellectual superiority a rest.

Or look at it this way, at least with the Soap Box, your dragon is on-line, you ca attempt to slay it from your living room - otherwise, you would have to picket outsideof smoking establishments or stand outside waving your fists at people you percieve to be driving too fast...