Cyan users

[Batalov]

Davieddy (as you probably well know) writes more messages than all the rest of you combined. But for me, the volume of this forum is twice as small now as it used to be -- while the signal level virtually unchanged. Here's all I see:

[LaurV]

Bad supermod! Bad!

[Brian-E]

Originally Posted by LaurV

Bad supermod! Bad!

Nah, no problem, supermods are so powerful that they can even see what people on their ignore list have written! Wish I could do that.

[LaurV]

Yeah, hehe... After all this trash (mine included!) this topic has nothing to do in the "forum feedback" section, and some mod can use his magic voodoo to move it in some trash section ...

[BudgieJane]

Originally Posted by LaurV

Sorry for the omission, what I was trying to say is "on different forums". The remark about mods/users deleting old posts was referring to different forums, and not mersenneforum, from my "long experience" as a "forumist" (is that an English word?).

It doesn't matter whether it is an English word or not. This is an informal thread, and so nonce words are acceptable as long as people are able to understand them. Things may be different in a more formal thread, such as one dealing with the intricacies of Prime75 (for example).

Originally Posted by LaurV

I saw with my own eyes posts where the text was deleted (not the whole post moved) and/or substituted with profanities or foul language "just because the user/mod could do it".

Most of the people who use MersenneForum are intelligent and educated beyond high-school level. Therefore those people are able to make their points without using profanities or foul language. However, that does not preclude their use when a special emphasis on something is required, but that use should be extremely rare.

[Batalov]

Originally Posted by LaurV

Yeah, hehe... After all this trash (mine included!) this topic has nothing to do in the "forum feedback" section, and some mod can use his magic voodoo to move it in some trash section ...

I am pretty sure that the dumpster is in that particular subforum so that mods (including you) could also clean up their subforums. Mods can only operate on messages in their forum plus a few open areas, i.e. "forum feedback" and "Information & Answers" (These are also open to unregistered users; "Homework", too). There's much more documentation in the BB manual; reading it is a chore that any responsible mod should take upon themselves. Are you up to it, or are you going to repeat your "don't have time to read any stinkin' manuals (for tee)" tantrum in every place you go?

[xilman]

Originally Posted by Batalov

There's much more documentation in the BB manual; reading it is a chore that any responsible mod should take upon themselves.

Pater peccavi.

[Batalov]

Originally Posted by Brian-E

Nah, no problem, supermods are so powerful that they can even see what people on their ignore list have written! Wish I could do that.

Sarcasm detected. Of course, you can.

I, too, can see what he had written by hitting "View Post", but why would I waste my time? Based on years of jedi teaching experience, I already know that there will be some vile tripe, interjected with non sequiturs and blind links to Utube.

[LaurV]

Originally Posted by Batalov

I am pretty sure that the dumpster is in that particular subforum so that mods (including you) could also clean up their subforums. Mods can only operate on messages in their forum plus a few open areas, i.e. "forum feedback" and "Information & Answers" (These are also open to unregistered users; "Homework", too). There's much more documentation in the BB manual; reading it is a chore that any responsible mod should take upon themselves. Are you up to it, or are you going to repeat your "don't have time to read any stinkin' manuals (for tee)" tantrum in every place you go?

Well, the only place I "mod" is my team's chess-related subforum, and that is not "voluntarily", and there is no trash there! (except moves we post, , but those we are not allowed to delete or move!). It is not about what we can do, but about what we are allowed to do, and what we must do as part of our responsibility. I may be able to delete (hack) the forum completely, without any "mod" rights, but I would not do that (even if I could... but I am still thinking if I should only delete your posts...)

I think you are enough clever to imagine that I was not talking "for myself", related to clLucas. I always do my tools and I always go around. As a hint, I said "when I have no idea what binary means", in that post, and other things. I use to talk "first person" from the point of unadvised user, and this I am doing since ages on this forum, see the discussions related to mfaktc, Misfit, etc.

CudaLucas, Misfit, MfactX, and other tools here around, attract users because they are well written and easy to use, kudos to the developers. My negative comments were never meant to blame, but to improve, and I always helped, when I could. So, you should stop picking on me and start thinking.

(and I still don't like yahoo! )

[Raman]

Originally Posted by LaurV

I would be totally against it. For me, even the supermods being able to edit posts done months or years ago, is too much. People have bad habit to "retract" things they said, when is proved they were wrong....

Everyone is entitled to their own opinion, even if it is wrong. I believe no one in the forum posts some of mathematical articles as seriously as me, not? People are only bothered in chatting, discussion, debate. Management of mathematical articles, like thread I posted, such submissions require editing for the extended period of time. Errors, inaccuracies, adding furthermore information as one may decide to realize later on onwards, make it misleading, sometimes misguiding to publically sharing. I suspect people will read Wiki furthermore seriously as forum, afterwards for the adding of furthermore of additional information

[retina]

Originally Posted by Raman

Everyone is entitled to their own opinion, even if it is wrong. I believe no one in the forum posts some of mathematical articles as seriously as me, not? People are only bothered in chatting, discussion, debate. Management of mathematical articles, like thread I posted, such submissions require editing for the extended period of time. Errors, inaccuracies, adding furthermore information as one may decide to realize later on onwards, make it misleading, sometimes misguiding to publically sharing. I suspect people will read Wiki furthermore seriously as forum, afterwards for the adding of furthermore of additional information

Perhaps you are expecting something from a forum that it is not. Indeed "chatting, discussion, debate" are relevant to a forum. That is what forums are for, right? Maybe a blog is more appropriate for your "serious mathematical articles"?