Back to testing. My RAC has fallen under 1.0, I can edit the glossary as evidenced by the spelling mistake I made on the first page of the Glossary.

Now what's the volunteer tester tag for? Auto-added when someone is a moderator? And how in Hook's name did I become a moderator? ;-)
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Jord.

The BOINC FAQ Service.

I've been ashore for a few days, to meet with the captains of other ships, and in my absence I made some promotions. As with just about everything here, this is just a test. The authentication plug-in I wrote for the wiki is supposed to promote BOINC moderators to chiefs, and put anybody who's banned from the forums in the brig.

I think the moderator interface here is slightly different from that on other projects, so perhaps we can get a screen shot?

To test whether the banning works I will ban Misfit again, once I find where I put the tool to do it, and we'll see if he ends up in the brig on the wiki. It's only a test. He's performing a valuable duty, as he has many times before. He hasn't done anything wrong (this time :-), and I'll let him out once I return from my travels and/or the test is completed.

Keep in mind that all promotions on a pirate ship are provisional. As the Dread Pirate Roberts so eloquently put it, "I'll likely kill you in the morning". Meanwhile, let's see if it works as it should.

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-- Eric Myers

"Education is not the filling of a pail, but the lighting of a fire." -- William Butler Yeats

Options on the BOINC forums:

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So in essence there's not much difference, but for that here it's buttons (which change as well), they are on a line and not links underneath each other.

Oh, I did edit the glossary back to normal. :-)
Pitty/Petty.
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Jord.

The BOINC FAQ Service.

To test whether the banning works I will ban Misfit again, once I find where I put the tool to do it, and we'll see if he ends up in the brig on the wiki. It's only a test. He's performing a valuable duty, as he has many times before. He hasn't done anything wrong (this time :-), and I'll let him out once I return from my travels and/or the test is completed.

Why does everybody blame Misfit? o_O

Why does everybody blame Misfit? o_O

Why does everybody blame Misfit? o_O

Good question - IIRC Misfit always asked us to blame him, didn't he? ;-)

Hereby I'm offending myself!!

Why does everybody blame Misfit? o_O

Good question - IIRC Misfit always asked us to blame him, didn't he? ;-)

BTW, I like it how clearly is it shown that someone's in brig. Is it a Boinc standard? Or "not yet, but soon to be..."?

BTW, I like it how clearly is it shown that someone's in brig. Is it a Boinc standard? Or "not yet, but soon to be..."?

No, David Anderson didn't want it as an option. It would hack too much into a person's privacy if it were shown he was banned...

I've tried to report the message 4788 as offensive (red crossed box), but it didn't work (am I the first one to try this?):

Report a forum post - Unable to handle request
This project has not yet defined an administrator to handle this kind of forum reports. Please contact the project and tell them to add this information in their html/project/project.inc file

Why does everybody blame Misfit? o_O

Good question - IIRC Misfit always asked us to blame him, didn't he? ;-)

I did fully forgot the prophecy, we talk about Misfit and he's in jail...

I've tried to report the message 4788 as offensive (red crossed box), but it didn't work (am I the first one to try this?):

Report a forum post - Unable to handle request
This project has not yet defined an administrator to handle this kind of forum reports. Please contact the project and tell them to add this information in their html/project/project.inc file

Thanks for flagging this. The way you configure the report feature seems to have changed since I last looked at it, and I had not set up the list of people to whom the reports are to be mailed. Now that I have the report feature is working.

Why does everybody blame Misfit? o_O

Good question - IIRC Misfit always asked us to blame him, didn't he? ;-)

I did fully forgot the prophecy, we talk about Misfit and he's in jail...

I think right now we can blame misfit for sleeping on the job. I put him in the brig for one day, hoping he would then try out the glossary and report back how it worked (or didn't, since he was banned). But it seems he didn't try it.

Misfit, are you willing to help us test this?

I think right now we can blame misfit for sleeping on the job. I put him in the brig for one day, hoping ...

Misfit, are you willing to help us test this?

If Misfit is tied up, then feel free to toss me in the brig for a day tomorrow (1/29) and I can probably give it a test while at work.

...it's useful for moderators and administrators to see that a user is banned, so it might be that it only shows for them.

Someone being moderator on other Boinc fora, can confirm or deny, whether the mods can see such tags on banned users.

Pepo Wrote:

Is there currently any other volunteer (except Scott)?

Pepo Wrote:

Is there currently any other volunteer (except Scott)?

Blast! Toss me in the brig. I dare you.
Let's see if I can do damage from there also.

Damned! The whole crew's in the brig!

But who throwed the capt'n in the brig? Maybe Rusty? I hope he'll do no real damage from there ;-)

for good behaviour.

Ah...Feels nice to be out!

As for the Glossary, I could not edit existing entries nor could I create new ones (though the latter is likely due to my seaman ranking). I also could not post on the regular forum.

Now, what I could do is probably not what you want:

1) You will see that I was able to move and retitle entries while in the brig (see the brig moved entry). That is probably not an ability that one should have while in the brig (an angry inmate could think up some creative new entry names).

2) If you take a look at your own talk Cap'n, you will see that I was able to edit it at will. I was able to do so using either the 'edit' tab or the '+' tab. The 'move' feature also would work (I stopped before actually executing the move).

Edit: Just one other quick note...I was still listed in the glossary user list as in the brig until I logged out and back in.



@ Pepo
My wife blames me for everything anyway, so why not everyone else :)

My wife blames me for everything anyway, so why not everyone else :)

...what is bad behaviour? Changing your nickname, signature and profile to commence your (political) displeasure?

When I woke up, I've had a feeling like I were in a brig and a plenty of sharks were all around, trying to snack me... but it doesn't make any sense. It must have been some bad dream.
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Peter .-)

... but it doesn't make any sense. It must have been some bad dream.

Now what's the volunteer tester tag for? Auto-added when someone is a moderator? And how in Hook's name did I become a moderator? ;-)

To test whether the banning works I will ban Misfit again, once I find where I put the tool to do it, and we'll see if he ends up in the brig on the wiki. It's only a test. He's performing a valuable duty, as he has many times before. He hasn't done anything wrong (this time :-), and I'll let him out once I return from my travels and/or the test is completed.

Other users might taunt or tease the banned person, as we do now to Misfit.

Misfit, are you willing to help us test this?

So I was banned? I never received an email notice.

So how did I do? Was I put in irons and viciously flogged, or did I escape out through the secret trap door with all your gold?

So I was banned? I never received an email notice.

Neither did I previous times, probably any notification is usually not necessary, I assume the affected persons will mostly notice it immediately :-D

If you're banned and you don't notice it, is it really punishment?
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...it's useful for moderators and administrators to see that a user is banned, so it might be that it only shows for them.

As a not-logged-in visitor, I do not see the tag near Misfit's data.
[edit]Not even as chief. Could the brave Misfit already leave the brig? Is there currently any other volunteer (except Scott)? ;-)[/edit]

Someone being moderator on other Boinc fora, can confirm or deny, whether the mods can see such tags on banned users.

Now what's the volunteer tester tag for? Auto-added when someone is a moderator? And how in Hook's name did I become a moderator? ;-)

"All is lost! All is lost!" -- Men in Black 2