Every other post on here is about Sodium...
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Well to be fair: Sodium is not a sponsor, a vendor or an advertiser.
Yes I am allowing them to have a category but at this point they are a group of developers trying to make a product that will hopefully be of use to those here. So while they aren't playing exactly they aren't really any of the above designations either.
Suggestions on how you think I should classify them?
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@minion-queen said in Every other post on here is about Sodium...:
Suggestions on how you think I should classify them?
They are a vendor of a product in development. The vendor tag would suffice. . .
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I think his point is that sometimes where you log in, a majority of the threads are sodium related. It just looks ... odd.
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@irj said in Every other post on here is about Sodium...:
@danp said in Every other post on here is about Sodium...:
Is there a way to "ignore" a forum category?
It's not necessarily annoying the feed for me, it is the fact that I follow sam so everytime I come back to ML, I see 10 new notifications related to Sodium.
I don't follow users. Are you saying that when you follow someone their new posts are marked as notifications? Certainly not going to follow anyone if that is the case.
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@jaredbusch said in Every other post on here is about Sodium...:
@irj said in Every other post on here is about Sodium...:
@danp said in Every other post on here is about Sodium...:
Is there a way to "ignore" a forum category?
It's not necessarily annoying the feed for me, it is the fact that I follow sam so everytime I come back to ML, I see 10 new notifications related to Sodium.
I don't follow users. Are you saying that when you follow someone their new posts are marked as notifications? Certainly not going to follow anyone if that is the case.
It does, yeah. I don't use it either, but it is one way to see what people are posting about. If you go into their profile and click the + button, it turns into a heart (yeah, that's a little weird) and you get updates on what they post.
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@brrabill said in Every other post on here is about Sodium...:
I think his point is that sometimes where you log in, a majority of the threads are sodium related. It just looks ... odd.
We just need more threads about more things. Get posting!
You especially, since your threads tend to bring in the traffic
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@minion-queen said in Every other post on here is about Sodium...:
Well to be fair: Sodium is not a sponsor, a vendor or an advertiser.
Yes I am allowing them to have a category but at this point they are a group of developers trying to make a product that will hopefully be of use to those here. So while they aren't playing exactly they aren't really any of the above designations either.
Suggestions on how you think I should classify them?
They are a vendor just like any other. A vendor tag would make sense. Although redundant as they all have Quixotic in their names, so it would not convey anything that isn't already obvious. But for uniformity it is a good idea.
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@scottalanmiller said in Every other post on here is about Sodium...:
@brrabill said in Every other post on here is about Sodium...:
I think his point is that sometimes where you log in, a majority of the threads are sodium related. It just looks ... odd.
We just need more threads about more things. Get posting!
You especially, since your threads tend to bring in the traffic
I could start some sort of crazy argument in a few of the sodium threads.
Say something mildly controversial and then tag @JaredBusch ... that's good for 100 posts right there.
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@brrabill said in Every other post on here is about Sodium...:
@scottalanmiller said in Every other post on here is about Sodium...:
@brrabill said in Every other post on here is about Sodium...:
I think his point is that sometimes where you log in, a majority of the threads are sodium related. It just looks ... odd.
We just need more threads about more things. Get posting!
You especially, since your threads tend to bring in the traffic
I could start some sort of crazy argument in a few of the sodium threads.
Say something mildly controversial and then tag @JaredBusch ... that's good for 100 posts right there.
GIves us stuff to post about.
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@danp said in Every other post on here is about Sodium...:
Is there a way to "ignore" a forum category?
Edit: I figured it out. For anyone interested, go into that forum category and the "unwatch" it.
Yup, that's why we have things like the job postings, self promotion, water closet and so forth broken out into their own categories specifically, along with vendors that have their own communities here. You can join and only get updates to Sodium, or you could get updates to everything except Sodium, or any combination of things. We don't break the IT Conversations into different groups because of topic identification issues that just doesn't work. But in theory you can watch tags of interest, but not nearly as well as you'd hope.
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What would really be nice is if you clicked on a profile of a "service provider" it told you exactly what services they provide. The Restoronix conversation could have been easily avoided yesterday if that were the case. Anybody could click on @scottalanmiller and see that he's got vested interest in companies X, Y, and Z.
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@bnrstnr said in Every other post on here is about Sodium...:
What would really be nice is if you clicked on a profile of a "service provider" it told you exactly what services they provide. The Restoronix conversation could have been easily avoided yesterday if that were the case. Anybody could click on @scottalanmiller and see that he's got vested interest in companies X, Y, and Z.
That would be great. Unfortunately it is also something that the platform does not support. Also, it is REALLY important that everyone remember that this is not Spiceworks and not apply SW vendor logic here. Vendors are free to participate and post and the vendor tag does not mean that someone is or is not a vendor (in IT, everyone is a vendor to someone, it doesn't mean anything) but rather that a specific account is verified as being from a specific vendor. It means that the person in question has reached out to GS and taken the time to validate that they really are representatives of the vendor in question. The vendor tag is not to flag people as vendors, but to show that they are verified as being with the vendor that they claim to represent. Very different things. SW vendors are barred unless they have paid and the GG status means that they are paying to get to be there as a vendor.
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There is an "About me" portion of the profile where this stuff could easily be listed, also...
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@bnrstnr said in Every other post on here is about Sodium...:
There is an "About me" portion of the profile where this stuff could easily be listed, also...
Mine already includes that information lol.
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@quixoticjeremy yours is about the only one. Anybody joining the community has no idea what SAM has vested interest in. Everybody here suggests products, it would be much better to be able to tell who sells what they're promoting. I can't remember the name of the company, but the WordPress provider convo last week was ridiculously long and heated trying to figure out the truth, when in fact it could have all been easily avoided if there was somewhere that listed who sells what...
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@bnrstnr said in Every other post on here is about Sodium...:
@quixoticjeremy yours is about the only one. Anybody joining the community has no idea what SAM has vested interest in. Everybody here suggests products, it would be much better to be able to tell who sells what they're promoting. I can't remember the name of the company, but the WordPress provider convo last week was ridiculously long and heated trying to figure out the truth, when in fact it could have all been easily avoided if there was somewhere that listed who sells what...
It's probably not my place to have an opinion on the subject but I can appreciate what you're saying and I'm glad that I'm being transparent.
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@scottalanmiller said
You can join and only get updates to Sodium, or you could get updates to everything except Sodium, or any
Did not know that! Thanks.
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@bnrstnr said in Every other post on here is about Sodium...:
@quixoticjeremy yours is about the only one. Anybody joining the community has no idea what SAM has vested interest in. Everybody here suggests products, it would be much better to be able to tell who sells what they're promoting. I can't remember the name of the company, but the WordPress provider convo last week was ridiculously long and heated trying to figure out the truth, when in fact it could have all been easily avoided if there was somewhere that listed who sells what...
Well no, not in that case. If you looked, there was no recommendation. That was a disgruntled ex-community member making things up to make trouble. The "making recommendations" part of was made up. That the web host wasn't public yet was the issue and I had made a joke about it and he seized on the fact that it was mentioned to try to make it look like I was making loads of recommendations (he never produced any) and that I was hiding something (I was, I was hiding the company completely because the website wasn't even done yet.) So that would not resolve issues like, unfortuantely.
Funny enough, that Hostadillo thread was going on during a Sodium announcement.
What would have been handy would have been if the person making the fake accounts had said who they were. That was the actual part that was hidden. They were using a VPN to hide their location and make fake accounts under fake names and never admitted who they were. That's the bigger issue, really, that they had someone making false claims (he / she claimed to work for Grove Social in the past, but had not) and never admitted who they were or who they represented.
