Re: Problems joining or posting to Ubuntu Discourse?
Hi. Just posted the below in the Discurse (typo intended). Imagine my hilarity when I discovered the post had been "hidden by staff, awaiting approval"!
Having joined and used the Ubuntu forums back in 2007, I was only mildly disappointed to find that they were being migrated here. That was until I discovered the police here were issued with great big sticks and enjoyed treating everyone like children who should be seen and not heard until they had learnt the secrets which allowed them to post. I even had to read one of the “chosen few” describe people as “randos” because they did not know this was not the place for support requests. Which is wrong, because the Ubuntu forums WERE the place for support requests and now the forums have been closed and we are told to migrate here. Anyhoo, after more than 16 years of enjoying the Ubuntu forums and thinking that everyone was friendly and generally encouraging and tolerant of newcomers, I am disappointed to learn that, a bit like how the software has suffered a tragic loss of flexibility and customisation that Gutsy Gibbon etc. had, the Discourse discussion ‘moderators’ (to avoid using a more accurate but less sociably acceptable epithet), even though volunteers (I hope…), have also drawn inspiration from the proprietary world and made the offerings “our way or the highway”. (“p.s. we are not going to tell you what “our way” is and if we get it wrong it is just a config issue and just be grateful we let you ask a question at all! Be good or we will put you back on the trust level 0 naughty step!” ) Obviously, I hope I am wrong and I have missed something which was blindingly obvious. But the fact is that I joined, asked, and eventually helped on the Ubuntu forums without ever even thinking about how to do anything or whether I was “allowed” to do something. This implementation of a Discussion platform does not make me feel that way. (Oh. The “preview post” functionality was also good in the forums. Especially for me, what with my failing eyes which makes Adwaita a living hell)
To err is human, but not uniquely so.