Warning Level.

[ggauny@live.fr]

Hi
I am noted "WARNING LEVEL : 0%".
Why and what this means ????
Good day.
Gérard

[Dave Frederickson]

Basically it means that you haven't posted anything offensive. Which, surprisingly, does happen.

Notice that the Forum is comprised of several categories. In the future questions like this are more appropriately posted in the Forum Issues and Administration sub-forum and programs belong in the HP Software Libraries. You'll find that you'll usually get a better response to you posts if they are posted in the appropriate forum.

[cyrille de brébisson]

Hello

(01-18-2015 06:08 PM)Dave Frederickson Wrote:  Basically it means that you haven't posted anything offensive. Which, surprisingly, does happen.

Notice that the Forum is comprised of several categories. In the future questions like this are more appropriately posted in the Forum Issues and Administration sub-forum

Should he not get a warning level increase for that?

Cyrille

[walter b]

(01-19-2015 06:21 AM)cyrille de brébisson Wrote:  Should he not get a warning level increase for that?

That's a typical European reaction. Beware! Warning levels are distributed by US American assessors based on their feelings.

d;-)

[d b]

(01-18-2015 05:43 PM)ggauny@live.fr Wrote:  Hi
I am noted "WARNING LEVEL : 0%".
Why and what this means ????
Good day.
Gérard

Gérard;
Everyone starts at 0% warning level. Almost everyone stays there. Sometimes even valued members get warned and usually it's just that; a personal message to someone reminding them that this is a friendly site and all of us near-Asperger syndrome math nerds need to stick together. For repeat offenders it's a formal "warning" and gets a number usually in multiples of 20%. They disappear in a while. Only 40% and up matter anyway.
That you are at or under 20% means that you aren't a whining, petulant, arrogant, loud mouthed, nagging, insulting, know-it-all. Cool. Welcome.
BTW: as stated by another member; putting questions in the most closely matching sub-forum does get you better answers. That's because this place has gotten so big that we all read only what interests us. If you ever want to have a thread you started moved to a different area, ask a moderator. We'll do it and the system leaves a re-direct for a couple of days so early readers can still find it. -db

[Gerald H]

(01-19-2015 08:18 AM)Den Belillo (Martinez Ca.) Wrote:  

(01-18-2015 05:43 PM)ggauny@live.fr Wrote:  Hi
I am noted "WARNING LEVEL : 0%".
Why and what this means ????
Good day.
Gérard

Gérard;
Everyone starts at 0% warning level. Almost everyone stays there. Sometimes even valued members get warned and usually it's just that; a personal message to someone reminding them that this is a friendly site and all of us near-Asperger syndrome math nerds need to stick together. For repeat offenders it's a formal "warning" and gets a number usually in multiples of 20%. They disappear in a while. Only 40% and up matter anyway.
That you are at or under 20% means that you aren't a whining, petulant, arrogant, loud mouthed, nagging, insulting, know-it-all. Cool. Welcome.
BTW: as stated by another member; putting questions in the most closely matching sub-forum does get you better answers. That's because this place has gotten so big that we all read only what interests us. If you ever want to have a thread you started moved to a different area, ask a moderator. We'll do it and the system leaves a re-direct for a couple of days so early readers can still find it. -db

I guess I'm still under 20% as I only fulfil 4 of your qualifying categories (plus bad spelling).

[Dave Frederickson]

(01-19-2015 06:21 AM)cyrille de brébisson Wrote:  Hello

(01-18-2015 06:08 PM)Dave Frederickson Wrote:  Basically it means that you haven't posted anything offensive. Which, surprisingly, does happen.

Notice that the Forum is comprised of several categories. In the future questions like this are more appropriately posted in the Forum Issues and Administration sub-forum

Should he not get a warning level increase for that?

Cyrille

If you have a problem with my post, Cyrille, just click the REPORT button in the lower right corner.

Last weekend I had to report an offensive post after trying to help a member and they suggested that I could "<slang term for fellatio> them anytime". A moderator edited the post and it was eventually deleted. The question is, did that member get a warning level increase???

Dave

[d b]

(01-19-2015 03:18 PM)Dave Frederickson Wrote:  

(01-19-2015 06:21 AM)cyrille de brébisson Wrote:  Hello


Should he not get a warning level increase for that?

Cyrille

If you have a problem with my post, Cyrille, just click the REPORT button in the lower right corner.

Last weekend I had to report an offensive post after trying to help a member and they suggested that I could "<slang term for fellatio> them anytime". A moderator edited the post and it was eventually deleted. The question is, did that member get a warning level increase???

Dave

Dave; I think that Cyrille took your showing a new member something about the forum software as a small criticism and made a small joke about it. No biggie. It's language, he thinks in French. We both talk Califorñano.
About your other point; I didn't do a formal warning of that guy. Katie clearly and justifiably didn't like his post but I got to it first. I chose to edit out the porno. He then took the hint and erased the whole thing. Next time there is no pass for that, and there probably will be a next time. Stuff falls out of his mouth.

I'm going to move this thread to Issues and Administration like you had suggested to the OP, because of the majority of it's subjects. It kind of took on a life of it's own.

[walter b]

(01-19-2015 10:02 AM)Gerald H Wrote:  I guess I'm still under 20% as I only fulfil 4 of your qualifying categories (plus bad spelling).

Bad spelling isn't assessed here. Definitly.

d:-/

[Thomas Klemm]

(01-19-2015 06:16 PM)walter b Wrote:  

(01-19-2015 08:18 AM)Den Belillo (Martinez Ca.) Wrote:  I guess I'm still under 20% as I only fulfil 4 of your qualifying categories (plus bad spelling).

Bad spelling isn't assessed here. Definitly.

What about bad quoting?

(01-19-2015 10:02 AM)Gerald H Wrote:  I guess I'm still under 20% as I only fulfil 4 of your qualifying categories (plus bad spelling).

Cheers
Thomas

[Dave Hicks]

I just took a peek at the warning log:

It's been 3 months since anyone has received a warning. 5 people have received at least one warning since the creation of the forum. 1 person has received more than one warning since the creation of the forum. 1 person has received a warning for grammar and punctuation, but that was just a test user account and a test warning.

Warning levels do expire after a while and it looks like all those people are back to a warning level of 0.

Not bad for 24K posts from 1959 users.

Of course this doesn't include spammers who we clobber without warning.

[walter b]

(01-19-2015 07:42 PM)Thomas Klemm Wrote:  

(01-19-2015 06:16 PM)walter b Wrote:  Bad spelling isn't assessed here. Definitly.

What about bad quoting?

Obviously as little as bad responding. Anyway, I corrected my mistake.

d:-/

[Massimo Gnerucci]

(01-19-2015 06:16 PM)walter b Wrote:  

(01-19-2015 10:02 AM)Gerald H Wrote:  I guess I'm still under 20% as I only fulfil 4 of your qualifying categories (plus bad spelling).

Bad spelling isn't assessed here. Definitly.

d:-/

Or definitely?

:D :P

[Thomas Klemm]

(01-19-2015 08:35 PM)walter b Wrote:  Obviously as little as bad responding.

There was a recent post by Jose Mesquita (jebem) where he responded to three previous posts at once: One was from Katie, one from you and one from me.

To me this is an good example for using the button.
The threaded mode can't display this correctly as this is not a tree (graph theory).
Thus you would have forced Jose to favor one of us using the button.

Cheers
Thomas

[walter b]

(01-19-2015 09:01 PM)Massimo Gnerucci Wrote:  

(01-19-2015 06:16 PM)walter b Wrote:  Bad spelling isn't assessed here. Definitly.

Or definitely?

Congratulations, Massimo, you noticed it!

d;-p

[Thomas Klemm]

(01-19-2015 09:08 PM)walter b Wrote:  you noticed it!

It's easy to notice as the spell checker puts a squiggly red line below it.

[Marcus von Cube]

(01-19-2015 09:04 PM)Thomas Klemm Wrote:  Thus you would have forced Jose to favor one of us using the button.

New Reply and replying to the first post in a thread are equivalent. We will no lose anything if we get rid of the former.

[Massimo Gnerucci]

(01-19-2015 09:49 PM)Marcus von Cube Wrote:  

(01-19-2015 09:04 PM)Thomas Klemm Wrote:  Thus you would have forced Jose to favor one of us using the button.

New Reply and replying to the first post in a thread are equivalent. We will no lose anything if we get rid of the former.

Unless that you have to go to the first post (maybe several pages back) in order to insert a new reply...

[Massimo Gnerucci]

(01-19-2015 09:29 PM)Thomas Klemm Wrote:  

(01-19-2015 09:08 PM)walter b Wrote:  you noticed it!

It's easy to notice as the spell checker puts a squiggly red line below it.

I see red squiggly lines under almost all words in my posts.

[Thomas Klemm]

(01-19-2015 09:53 PM)Massimo Gnerucci Wrote:  I see red squiggly lines under almost all words in my posts.

It's more fun to draw the squiggly lines by yourself.

Doodling in Math Class: Squiggle Inception
Vi Hart




Cheers
Thomas