History Lessons
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Re: History Lessons
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chuina wrote:
No, [b]Alan[/b].
i.e. How can a user join before [b]Moderator[/b].[/quote]
There is no automatic progression from user to moderator. Anyone can join as a user at any time, and will "advance" automatically in the label over the user name according to the number of posts and limits implemented in the forum software. You for instance have achieved "Regular Board Member" status, and Gerald has posted enough to be a "Professional Board Member". Moderators are "chosen" for the role from contributing members and must be approved (or at least not vetoed :-) ) by the CentOS core team members and promoted by a Webmaster. AFAIK the join date is pretty much irrelevant. Not all members aspire to be moderators, nor would all be approved regardless of join date or number of posts.
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chuina wrote:
No, [b]Alan[/b].
i.e. How can a user join before [b]Moderator[/b].[/quote]
There is no automatic progression from user to moderator. Anyone can join as a user at any time, and will "advance" automatically in the label over the user name according to the number of posts and limits implemented in the forum software. You for instance have achieved "Regular Board Member" status, and Gerald has posted enough to be a "Professional Board Member". Moderators are "chosen" for the role from contributing members and must be approved (or at least not vetoed :-) ) by the CentOS core team members and promoted by a Webmaster. AFAIK the join date is pretty much irrelevant. Not all members aspire to be moderators, nor would all be approved regardless of join date or number of posts.
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Re: History Lessons
Sorry [b]chuina[/b] I did understand what you were asking but as this is the [i]Social[/i] forum, I was hoping to have a bit of fun with how this thread is progressing . . . you took the bait, then along came [b]toracat[/b] and, more importantly, [b]Phil[/b] to spoil things!
Phooey. :-x
Phooey. :-x
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Re: History Lessons
Some of us just don't know how to have fun. :-)
Re: History Lessons
It doesn't take a rocket scientist to ---errm, I dunno, insert NASA joke here. Alan, I joined before you? For me it was work related. Note that I only became a Fedora person after taking a job that was RH centric, as from time to time, we put non-mission-critical things on Fedora . I use it for my desktop at work as well, because, shucks, sometimes I like the newer things.
I am surprised though, that I've been a member longer than you have, though if one checks post count, they can see which of us has been more active. :)
I am surprised though, that I've been a member longer than you have, though if one checks post count, they can see which of us has been more active. :)
Re: History Lessons
The post count does not necessarily represent accurately the amount of unique information
within the content of the posts. Ask the Forum Admin to collect all posts for user [i]foo[/i],
concatenate, and compress as efficiently as possible. The size of result (in bytes) could be
a metric of non-repeating content. :-)
On repeats, aka [i]deja vu[/i], I'm fairly sure there was a discussion about origins and
purpose of [i]{/,/usr/}{,s}bin[/i] some time ago. Like a year ago, give or take two.
within the content of the posts. Ask the Forum Admin to collect all posts for user [i]foo[/i],
concatenate, and compress as efficiently as possible. The size of result (in bytes) could be
a metric of non-repeating content. :-)
On repeats, aka [i]deja vu[/i], I'm fairly sure there was a discussion about origins and
purpose of [i]{/,/usr/}{,s}bin[/i] some time ago. Like a year ago, give or take two.
Re: History Lessons
[quote]On repeats, aka deja vu, I'm fairly sure there was a discussion about origins and
purpose of {/,/usr/}{,s}bin some time ago. Like a year ago, give or take two.[/quote]
Yeah.
But the thread Headline is [b]History Lessons[/b]. So, i think we are still in the range of history lesson.
purpose of {/,/usr/}{,s}bin some time ago. Like a year ago, give or take two.[/quote]
Yeah.
But the thread Headline is [b]History Lessons[/b]. So, i think we are still in the range of history lesson.
Re: History Lessons
Yes, one can clearly learn from the history of fora that certain questions are asked repeatedly,
regardless of whether previous answers were thorough, stickied, outdated, or inconclusive.
One can also learn that while the Search Functions might fail you, there is always some
helpful Moderator, who can dig up instantaneously a link to your own post from days long gone.
Not all of us have the skills required from moderate Mod.
And then one can learn ... [i]gosh I totally forgot what. Got side-tracked by the previous paragraph.[/i] :-?
regardless of whether previous answers were thorough, stickied, outdated, or inconclusive.
One can also learn that while the Search Functions might fail you, there is always some
helpful Moderator, who can dig up instantaneously a link to your own post from days long gone.
Not all of us have the skills required from moderate Mod.
And then one can learn ... [i]gosh I totally forgot what. Got side-tracked by the previous paragraph.[/i] :-?
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Re: History Lessons
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scottro wrote:
It doesn't take a rocket scientist to ---errm, I dunno, insert NASA joke here[/quote]
Is that for pschaff? :-D
scottro wrote:
It doesn't take a rocket scientist to ---errm, I dunno, insert NASA joke here[/quote]
Is that for pschaff? :-D
Re: History Lessons
Of course.
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Re: History Lessons
Since virtually my whole career has been spent on "the 1st A" in NASA, I claim no expertise in rocket science whatsoever. :-) Have been doing computer/OS-related tasks as a sideline (AKA "other duties as assigned") and hobby for a few decades , so there is a wee bit of history lurking in the cobwebs.
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jlehtone wrote:
The post count does not necessarily represent accurately the amount of unique information
within the content of the posts. Ask the Forum Admin to collect all posts for user [i]foo[/i],
concatenate, and compress as efficiently as possible. The size of result (in bytes) could be
a metric of non-repeating content. :-) [/quote]
+1 to that logic; however, I'm sure I would suffer by that metric due to extensive copy/paste encouraging people to install the latest release, read the release notes, update, don't do source installs, do the required reading, become root, yadda, yadda, yadda. :-D
Would also be good if we could have a measure of relevance/information-content but that's too much to ask of an automated metric without some state-of-the-art applications of [url=http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/A.I._Artificial_Intelligence]AI[/url] - guess we'll just have to ask for user "Thanks" to be implemented in Website 2.0.
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On repeats, aka [i]deja vu[/i], I'm fairly sure there was a discussion about origins and
purpose of [i]{/,/usr/}{,s}bin[/i] some time ago. Like a year ago, give or take two.[/quote]
I'm sure I remember that too, but should be fired as a moderator 'cause all I can turn up searching for it is discussions on "su" vs "su -" and a lot of posts with PATH variables. :-P
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jlehtone wrote:
The post count does not necessarily represent accurately the amount of unique information
within the content of the posts. Ask the Forum Admin to collect all posts for user [i]foo[/i],
concatenate, and compress as efficiently as possible. The size of result (in bytes) could be
a metric of non-repeating content. :-) [/quote]
+1 to that logic; however, I'm sure I would suffer by that metric due to extensive copy/paste encouraging people to install the latest release, read the release notes, update, don't do source installs, do the required reading, become root, yadda, yadda, yadda. :-D
Would also be good if we could have a measure of relevance/information-content but that's too much to ask of an automated metric without some state-of-the-art applications of [url=http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/A.I._Artificial_Intelligence]AI[/url] - guess we'll just have to ask for user "Thanks" to be implemented in Website 2.0.
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On repeats, aka [i]deja vu[/i], I'm fairly sure there was a discussion about origins and
purpose of [i]{/,/usr/}{,s}bin[/i] some time ago. Like a year ago, give or take two.[/quote]
I'm sure I remember that too, but should be fired as a moderator 'cause all I can turn up searching for it is discussions on "su" vs "su -" and a lot of posts with PATH variables. :-P