Discrepancy in Moderation Settings 2.0.8 ?

[Auke]

The options in the actual Moderation Settings in 2.0.8 (Configuration -> Security and Moderation -> Moderation) appear to be different from the ones in the explanatory text (the stuff you see by clicking te question mark).

[Illori]

please report issues you see in smf in the bug reporting board instead of here.

this has been changed in 2.1 already.

[Arantor]

Wait, someone actually clicked on the ? icons outside of a random testing context? There's a novelty.

[Auke]

please report issues you see in smf in the bug reporting board instead of here.

Okay, sorry you had to replace this. I just thought that a textual issue would not qualify as a bug (I thought those were either programming errors or animals with either 0 or 4+ legs). Maybe change this board title?

Wait, someone actually clicked on the ? icons outside of a random testing context? There's a novelty.

I was actually looking for an interrobang to click on, but a question mark was the closest I could find.

Auke

[Arantor]

Except this is the board for "Fixed or Bogus" bugs, which the resting place of bugs after either having been found to be non-bugs or squished good and proper.

As for the (?) icons, you're genuinely one of the few people that has ever actually clicked on them. Most people don't.

[Illori]

Except this is the board for "Fixed or Bogus" bugs, which the resting place of bugs after either having been found to be non-bugs or squished good and proper.

this was moved from the doc helpers board.

[Arantor]

Oh, right. I won't go in there any more after seeing the way you guys run the show. This isn't a bug, it's a documentation issue since it's in-software documentation but you will do what you see fit, I guess.

[Auke]

As for the (?) icons, you're genuinely one of the few people that has ever actually clicked on them. Most people don't.

My understanding of computers is mostly limited to the basic use of Word, Excel and websurfing. Building websites is something that I, frankly, really don't want to do. It's just that there's a subject that in my opinion desperately needs a forum or at least a platform. And if noone else creates it, I guess I got to do it. Since I'm now swamped with all kinds of stuff I don't know anything about, I have to click those question marks to at least make me comprehend something. If you'd like an unpaid side-job as an administrator please let me know...

[Arantor]

I have to click those question marks to at least make me comprehend something

You are awesome. I wish more of our users were like you.

If you'd like an unpaid side-job as an administrator please let me know...

I am curiously afraid of bugs of the insect kind. But if you have any questions please do ask them here. Someone here is going to know the answer, guaranteed.

[Irisado]

Oh, right. I won't go in there any more after seeing the way you guys run the show. This isn't a bug, it's a documentation issue since it's in-software documentation but you will do what you see fit, I guess.

Having just checked the list of things that the Doc Team is responsible for, the help text strings are actually one of the few areas of documentation related information which do not come under our remit.  Of course, if we had more people on the Doc Team that doesn't mean that we couldn't look at them if requested to do so by those team members who are responsible for them, but we simply don't have sufficient personnel to deal with the text strings and fix all the wiki pages at this time.

[Arantor]

Please don't make me explain how many things are wrong with what you just said.

[live627]

the help text strings are actually one of the few areas of documentation related information which do not come under our remit.

Why not?

It IS documentation, full stop.

[Auke]

I have to click those question marks to at least make me comprehend something

You are awesome. I wish more of our users were like you.

Given that I posted over 70 messages in just a couple of days, their is still plenty that I don't understand. Trouble is that lots of explanations are full of terms which I don't know the meaning of.

If you'd like an unpaid side-job as an administrator please let me know...

I am curiously afraid of bugs of the insect kind. But if you have any questions please do ask them here. Someone here is going to know the answer, guaranteed.

I can promise you that if you would accept this moderator job, that the insects, regardless of how full the screen is with them, won't crawl out of your computer. Honestly. :seriousface
And you might even learn a thing or two about them as well.

Having just checked the list of things that the Doc Team is responsible for, the help text strings are actually one of the few areas of documentation related information which do not come under our remit.

I'm willing to believe you that 'SMF Documentation Help' doesn't cover this kind of things, but are you sure that 'Bug Reports' is a better place? Is it actually on the list that the Bug Team is responsible for? Sounds a bit weird to me to be honest, given that it's not a bug but a textual fault...
Anyway, it's apparently solved in 2.1, so I'll leave it with that. Until I find another fault...

[Irisado]

Why not?

It IS documentation, full stop.

You'll need to ask someone higher up than me.

I'm willing to believe you that 'SMF Documentation Help' doesn't cover this kind of things, but are you sure that 'Bug Reports' is a better place? Is it actually on the list that the Bug Team is responsible for? Sounds a bit weird to me to be honest, given that it's not a bug but a textual fault...
Anyway, it's apparently solved in 2.1, so I'll leave it with that. Until I find another fault...

Sometimes, we don't have an ideal board for a topic.  There isn't really an ideal place for the issue that you've raised, but for the reasons mentioned earlier in the discussion, it doesn't belong in the Doc Helpers board - that board is purely used for documentation and translation issues with the wiki.

[Arantor]

Demarcation is alive and well, I see.

Time was when people would just collectively pitch in even if it 'wasn't their job'.

[Justyne]

If whoever is in charge of this needs help, I am willing to give it a shot and look into the matter.

[Auke]

Demarcation is alive and well, I see.

Time was when people would just collectively pitch in even if it 'wasn't their job'.

I think that's -unfortunately- what happens to every social structure, whether it is a company of a forum: when it grows beyond a certain threshold, bureaucracy kicks in.

If whoever is in charge of this needs help, I am willing to give it and look into the matter.

Apparently it's solved in 2.1, but I'll keep you in mind in case I find something else like this. Thanks!