AK Ted
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I have to lower my 5-star rating down to 1-star until some “functionality” is removed, or at least until it can be turned off in admin. With Jetpack installed, a subscriber to your blog has Jetpack shown in their Dashboard. Now, I have no idea of any security implications of this, but I personally feel that it is no one’s business but my own – and those I choose to tell – which plugins I do or do not have installed.
Forum: Requests and Feedback
In reply to: Seemingly Rude ModeratorsJan, thanks for your civil response, and the link. I’ll be sure to read it. As for you and Esmi saying those actions are correct, I’m not a Mod so who am I to disagree? (Although I do, based upon my interpretation of the Forum Welcome)
I’m aware that Mods are volunteers, and I am also aware from my own personal experience with helping others that it can often be a mostly thankless job, with little reward other than the occasional (much less than deserved) thank you and the self-satisfaction of helping others. But, also from experience, it is easy to forget that forum users are unique individuals with pressing problems just trying to find solutions so they can stop figuratively pulling out their own hair. It is also easy to slip into “robot” mode when moderating because of the never-slowing conveyor belt of posts to be handled. One should always consider their tone, not just their intent, in their curation of threads.
While thread hijacking does pose problems, overall it seems better to allow forum users to put their seemingly same 2 cents in even though they do not have the same exact server, themes, etc. Many, if not most, problems can be solved that way, by narrowing the parameters of the problem until the exact cause is determined. Overzealously monitoring a thread for “me too”ers actually hampers the collaborative process of finding causes of – and solutions to – problems.
Going by the “same server, same configuration” concept, without exception, would mean that users shouldn’t bother searching the forums for a solution before posting since the likelihood of them having the same “everything” as the people who’ve had similar or identical problems is so low. Obviously that is absurd. Each post should be considered on its own, with obvious hijackers notified. But it would be better to err on the side of caution and allow a “me too” post to go through, without said poster having the same “everything”, than to shut it down preemptively with zero consideration of its merits in finding a solution that will apply to many, regardless of their configurations.
Thanks, also, for pointing out where to “unresolve” a thread. I missed that. I’ll leave it as “resolved”.
Thank you, Esmi, for your dedication to these forums. Thanks as well to all the other Mods.
Forum: Requests and Feedback
In reply to: Seemingly Rude ModeratorsI already have read the Forum Welcome. Here are some excerpts:
Please play nice.
This only applies to posters, not Mods, it would seem.
Many of the questions that are posted in the forums have been posted many times before, and get the same answers each time. Before starting a new thread, please try searching the forums.
I’m fairly certain that those many questions were not posted by people with “the same version of WordPress on the same physical server hosted by the same hosts with the same plugins, theme & configurations”, so it would seem that those with the same problems should post in the same thread until said problem is resolved.
Ironically, in the thread I first mentioned, the first response by a non-Mod hijacked the thread and was answered by a “Plugin Contributor”, but did not address the OP’s problem. If any Mod intervention were necessary – apart from the “all-caps” dress-down – then those instances seem likely candidates.
Finally:Unless you’re having 100% without any doubts or variation, the exact same problem, do not post in someone else’s thread.
Which, at least to me, says by all means do post in someone else’s thread if you are certain.
And for the record, this thread, although marked “[resolved]”, also clearly is not.