Anomalous, buggy behavior on AskWoody

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While we’re waiting for the Windows Secrets merge to kick in (several delays, sorry), I’d like to come up with a list of clearly weird behavior on the
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Elly

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See #327825. Buttons are missing from bars.

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Microfix

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See this test by @bluetrix. They can delete their Replies but not their Topics. This makes sense because deleting a topic could not only be your replies, but other peoples’ and that shouldn’t be allowed. And this test by @NightOwl

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CADesertRat, Microfix, Bluetrix

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PK,
I will add my test was done in the TEST forums, where I have no OT Trash function.
thx

Edit to add: After looking at @nightowl post it seems more than one of us loungers are thinking alike. GMTA 🙂

Edit again: I haven’t tried to del a Topic so I went to Rants and did test just to be sure.
Please delete Topic: “don’t read just a test” Topic Post #328387 in Rants Forum.

@Microfix I think you are right, the TEST forum would be the main place deleting topics occurred.
(If I only could, lol)
Dats it, I’m done testing this issue.

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Microfix

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So it appears to me that there may be an issue with the testing forum.
Think about it who, why and where do most wish to delete their posts as members 😉

Edit: @Bluetrix, your rants topic has now been trashed.

Windows - commercial by definition and now function...

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Bluetrix

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Going through this….

My original observation stands:

Anonymous posters can create new topics.
AskWoody Loungers can create new topics.
AskWoody_MVPs cannot.

The other results that I can discern:

AskWoody Loungers cannot delete topics that have posts in them

I think that’s as intended, for reasons mentioned above.

Loungers are not able to delete their own posts

I can’t confirm that. Every test I’ve done with an AskWoody Lounger or AskWoody Plus account is able to delete a post within a few minutes of the post going up.

Anybody have any clues?

Are there  other anomalies that you can ascribe to specific roles – Lounger, Plus, _MVP, and so on?

(Linking to specific replies requires that you right-click on the Reply number and copy the link. There are automatically generated links to @-designated users, but not to replies, as far as I know.)

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You folks have been actively testing a few things, and may already have answers I haven’t seen. When I read this

Here’s my favorite:

Anonymous posters can create new topics.

AskWoody Loungers can create new topics.

AskWoody_MVPs cannot.

It occured to me that Anonymous topics require moderation. Are MVP topics being routed to a bucket not seen by mortals?

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Nope. It’s a bug in the role permissions…..

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I can’t create a new topic at the moment.  The whole UI for that is missing.

That topic that was just posted in the Linux forum, Kubuntu or Neon, was mine, which I decided to post to test this, and once again it ended up accidentally as anonymous, as is my custom.  The first repost when I logged in seemed successful in that it did provide the UI to enter the message, but when I posted, it never appeared (spam filter maybe?) and now the UI to create topics is gone.

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Look on the bright side. There’s a lot of us out here who find it very reassuring that you guys have problems, as well.

It may also be food for those who are so critical of Microsoft’s oops moments.

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woody

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Ascaris,

I just had a look in two different forums, one of them the Testing one, and the usual UI is all there. I did not try to create a thread, so I do not know if one can trash a thread one has created, or not.

Maybe this is just an intermittent problem of the several different ones that have been happening. Or maybe someone has it in for youuuu!!! Hard to tell.

Oooops! You are one of those MVPs! My most sincere condolences.

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10:45 EST 2/17

For 3 days, I’ve been able to sign in, but then the system signs me out.  I’ll test this again tomorrow to see if the problem persists.

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Does the system sign you out while you’re on the site, or is it after you’ve left the site, before you come back another day/session?

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woody

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Using html on a site based on BBCodes tends to give our site security indigestion…
🙁

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