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Hello, Timothy
Thank you for your patience and I apologize for taking so long to get back with you. My colleague and I are discussing your issue and I will have an answer for you shortly.
Best Regards,
Rainey Fellows
Wikidot Support
LaBlueGirl/Rainey,
You are doing it again. You are not a community admin and as far as any of us know you have no role in wikidot itself. Please don't make more posts like this indicating you are something you are not.
Rob
Rob Elliott - Strathpeffer, Scotland - member of the Wikidot first line support team.
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Curiouser and curiouser, she has just PMd me to say she is an admin or has some official role and that we should get confirmation of this from Michal!
Rob
Rob Elliott - Strathpeffer, Scotland - member of the Wikidot first line support team.
Strathview ~ Wikidot-based wikis, websites & intranets and online database development
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Please send an email to either support@wikidot or edu@wikidot. We may continue the discussion there.
Wikidot Support
(account deleted)Actually I already read your post… but because I'm nothing but free member… so I don't know abaout it… better ask for dev or pro member… sorry…
A fairly bad-tempered exchange of PMs has gone on over the last hour. It does appear from an email I have received from Rainey/LaBlueGirl sent from the wikidot.com domain that she might have a role. I have emailed support to question why, if she has a role answering on behalf of the developers on the forum, none of the forum admins were told about her and no-one has a clue who she is. It shows poor communication skills.
I will say no more on the subject other than to apologise on the forum when I have been proved to be wrong and a total pillock. Which will probably be sometime this weekend.
Not for the first time I have regretted getting into one of these ill-tempered discussions late on a Friday night!
Rob
Rob Elliott - Strathpeffer, Scotland - member of the Wikidot first line support team.
Strathview ~ Wikidot-based wikis, websites & intranets and online database development
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Hi Rob,
Like I said to Rainey, I like people with attitude, and you fit. We do have communication problems with Wikidot, I'm aware of this, and working hard to fix it. Rainey is part of my solution… however I should have told someone in the community about this in advance. Sorry for not doing that. To be honest, I'm not really sure where I'd say it…
I'm going to start a Wikidot blog (all formal and orderly) Real Soon Now. In the meantime, I want to say that (a) I really like what the Wikidot community has been doing. You are fanatical users (like me) and it shows in how you use Wikidot, how you help others use it, and how you defend those structures from unknown faces (like Rainey's). It's all good and you have my thanks. Drop me a line any time you need the favour returned and I will do my best.
(b) we've been pretty poor at listening to you in a serious way, and this is going to change. This is Rainey's job, and mine (Lukasz is still there but helping in design and deployment). I don't want to replace the work the community is doing. That would be insane. I want to make sure than when a problem (like registration difficulties) is raised, it gets treated seriously and rapidly, not left for months to sit there.
And (c), we all learn on the job and please, educate my team, and me, when you think we need it. None of us are fragile, and we live and die by our users, so speak your mind!
Friday night is a good time to vent. It all looks much better on Saturday morning. PMs are the right way to argue, it all goes away afterwards. I appreciate the discretion of not doing too much of that in public.
Cheers!
-Pieter
(Ps, if I did not introduce myself already, I am the CEO of Wikidot, meaning when things go wrong, you can blame me. And I'm half McGregor, meaning I like the flag :-)
@ Rob. i can understand why you are getting up the arse. i think i would too.
@ pieter.
To be honest, I'm not really sure where I'd say it…
anywhere!!!!! is better than nowhere!!!!
we would pick up on it. there are plenty of community admins and helpers watching "recent posts"
Even though i haven't been "seen" about of late, rest assured I'm looking. I bet helmuti, gerdami, ed, ed and even hartnell are as well.
Robs responce to rainey is a totally understandable reaction to, as he points out, poor communications. Not a good start is it :-)
I am the CEO of Wikidot, meaning when things go wrong, you can blame me.
As you have been for ages. But it is only recently that you seem to have got "involved". So please excuse us if we (me) appear scepticle.
however… i look forward to any and all input from anyone involved at "wikidot inc" level.
So lets see what you guys can do to make comms better. i await with baited breath. (and a bottle full of vallium)
much regards
Phil chett
The only problem I have is Rob not even bothering to PM me. Instead, he decides to make a public post, and not even in the proper place. If he would like to question who I am, he may ask me via PM. If he insists on doing it in public, he may start a new post and not take "Custom Footer". His reply is understandable, and so is my reaction.
I also understand how was he to know who I am? So, in this case you are saying it is better to be abrasive and order someone around in public, regardless of who this person may turn out to be? Good policy. I am thinking you do not get many people on Wikidot who claim to be an admin, no?
This entire discussion needs to be removed and placed in an appropriate new post.
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To be honest, I'm not really sure where I'd say it…
Pieter,
Maybe if you or Rainey had seen this and replied, a lot of this might have been avoided. I tried to find out over a week ago! ;)
http://community.wikidot.com/forum/t-163284/new-wikidot-team-member#post-511204
-Ed
@Ed, indeed, if I'd seen that we'd have avoided confusion. I think I saw the notification but was distracted. My fault. I guess you have your answer now.
@Phil, yes. I've been much too absent with other projects and allowed Wikidot to drift. The drift is over, but be careful what you wish for… :-)
@Timothy, since no-one here appears to know the answer, Rainey will get one from the devs and come back with it.
@Rainey, I doubt anyone's going to delete this thread. C'est la vie… you certainly landed with a splash.
Sorry about your thread, Timothy. I have posted an apology to Rainey/laBlueGirl here so as not to further hijack your thread.
Now….what was your question?
Rob
Rob Elliott - Strathpeffer, Scotland - member of the Wikidot first line support team.
Strathview ~ Wikidot-based wikis, websites & intranets and online database development
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Intresting question - this is not possible today ?
On the custom footer, how do you do the report a bug and flag as objectionable buttons?
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The custom footer will use wikidot code, so you can quite easily use images with links.
This will work fine for reporting a bug as the link will go to the bugs forum on this forum. (you know the one that, rainey will be keeping an eye open here…. wont she? :-) )
the "flag as objectionable" button uses a java script thing so you can't link to it.
But as this only sends a pm to the site master admin ( so i believe… have tried to test it but no success ) you could point it to a forum thread or similar.
After having used and served wikidot for more than 2 years now, my personal feeling is that the "flag as objectionable" was a kind of black hole swallowing flags for the eternity. I knew that Michal was working alone, at the beginning, and too busy with software enhancements. And I forgave him.
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