Mageia

[dedanna1029]

Fair enough. Regarding the link you posted to the post you made, there is nothing wrong with that, as you publicly also posted the good reasons for your edits. Keep in mind that most don't though, & therein lies the problem with being able to edit unlimitedly. I agree that a fair few are needed for some posts, but we're talking unlimited here. Is that honestly necessary? However I've also been mulling over that one should have right to own their own posts, so. *shrug. Maybe that is a point to raise to Mageia, that the posts belong to (or should) the person who posts them if it hasn't been already. I'm sorry, I'm unable to read the bug so don't know.

[viking60]

Yes I will not lose more calories over it. The unlimited editing is only a problem if someone abuses it. Should that happen you can always ban or whatever.
A majority of the Mageia community wants no limit. I have only seen one that wants it, and a claim that he is representing some un-asked and undefined majority.
Some people think that you have to compromise wherever there are two opinions. I beg to differ: That is only true if there are equally strongly represented opinions.
If one opinion is backed by a wast majority, then that majority should be respected without compromise.
But hey there are other distro's that welcome our contributions. No one is forcing us to use that forum.

[dedanna1029]

True dat. Just means more that can be directed to here. hint-hint.

[viking60]

Testing if it finaly is possible to land a post here in Mageia with Firefox.....
https://bugs.mageia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=681

[dedanna1029]

Very boring in class today, so I'm checking out New planning for Mageia 2.

[viking60]

I upgraded a lot of Mageia today - it has been a long time.
And I got the message that I am running short on space in VB (200 MB left). Checked FF and after some time the Keyboard does not work, but the mouse does - sort of. I cannot close FF though. I wonder if my freeze problem could be due due to little space (8 GB) ?

My /home as enough space but / is 4 gig and 95% full.
And why does it not happen when I use Opera?
Edit:
It does - so this is not only FF

[rolf]

Maybe due to not spending too much time in VB, but I wouldn't put all my stock in the symptoms to be found, there. I wouldn't think they are sufficient for a bug report, e.g. Moreso, efficient trouble-shooting should take place inside an actual install, imo.

What happens in VB, stays in VB!

[viking60]

Yeah it is VB -but on the other hand PcBSD, Mint, Centos, Android,Chakra, Fedora,Mandriva, and Arch work just fine -in VB

[rolf]

Quite. Just kibitzing and giffing.

[viking60]

Mageia seems to realize the collosal blunder of cencoring their community members:
Although this is a display of stubbornness and someone even thinks it is the admins human right to edit my posts; the German Mageia community have removed the time limit for editing posts.

This can mean two things:
Only Germans can be trusted to edit their own posts (because other nations are more evil,irresponsible and more stupid) or Mageia has to remove the limit.

Sensible descision by the Germans there celebrated with this post

[rolf]

Huzzah for Deutschlanders! I'm at a disadvantage and my google translate plugin doesn't seem to work but it looks like the German language forum unilaterally removed the time-out limit for editing posts? The restrictive, "top-down" model of "community" is still being enforced by Mageia nobility in the English/International forum? idk. When I read through this familiar bug by Barry that you cite, then Barry's other bug that he references therein, I think Mageia has forked, also, the part of Mandriva culture that treats non-developer, subscriber, possibly paying members of "community" as an afterthought, only to be addressed as dependent beta testers.

[viking60]

Huzzah for Deutschlanders! I'm at a disadvantage and my google translate plugin doesn't seem to work but it looks like the German language forum unilaterally removed the time-out limit for editing posts?

The restrictive, "top-down" model of "community" is still being enforced by Mageia nobility in the English/International forum? idk. When I read through this familiar bug by Barry that you cite, then Barry's other bug that he references therein, I think Mageia has forked, also, the part of Mandriva culture that treats non-developer, subscriber, possibly paying members of "community" as an afterthought, only to be addressed as dependent beta testers.

Interestingly put and But we will see what they decide now...
...
It is strange that no one can see the PR disaster in a long discussion about whether the community can be trusted or not. The Site Admin being the greatest advocate for this.
A community project where the community is not trusted to edit their own forum posts? How on earth will this irresponsible community be able to run a distro?
Edit:
They fixed it.