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General
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A central forum for the Prolog Community to discuss all things Prolog.

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Welcoming people and then having obnoxious forum settings in place is really not motivating… just got a post rejected because I already replied three times in a topic. My posts are marked as spam and hidden if they contain links. Or rejected if a link is to my website. I will refrain from further contributions until this is fixed.

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Theresa_Swift

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We’re all very new to Discourse and are learning our way around how it works.

So please don’t be frustrated. We’re trying to make it a welcoming and positive experience, but we’re still figuring it out. Unfortunately, it’s difficult to have the site grow without a few glitches along the way :frowning:

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Hi @pmoura, as @Theresa_Swift said we are all knew to manage this shared forum. Intentions are good but mistakes will be made. First of all thank you for your contributions so far!

It seems that the mechanisms to prevent spam and bad user behavior in Discourse are more complex than in traditional mailing lists. I found this guide (anyone with a better understanding please correct me):

Discourse Moderation Guide - Site Management - Discourse Meta

It seems that each user has a ‘trust level’ that is raised as they interact in the forum. Since the forum is fully open I think that it’d be not a good idea to mess with the default options unless we know exactly what are the consequences.

I’ve fixed your trust level as ‘3: regular’. Please tell me if this fixes the problems.

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Yes. In my experience the defaults work pretty nice unless you have experienced people joining the platform that immediately want to do stuff that required a higher trust level. In that case you’ll get some complaints as a maintainer and you can raise the trust level by hand.

I would not change the defaults, but it might be wise to bump the trust level of all the people we know that have subscribed.

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Thanks for the quick fix!

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More problems. Trying to reply to Jacinto in the “Teaching” category. But there isn’t a reply button. Yet another case of permission issues?

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Must be. I can see the reply botton. Be patient. Thank you Paulo.

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Hi Pablo, is it in all topics or just in the teaching category that you do not see Reply buttons?