Can someone tell me about this dime

I'm talking about myself. I'm not interested in anyone else's infractions. I should have worded it better.

 

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I'm just curious how many more freebies I have.
Jk of course.

 

I am not sure of the following, but since I can see information the general member can't , please let me know. 1. Click on your avatar, which takes you to your profile 2. Click on profile page and if you have had infractions, there is a tab labeled Warnings. If you click on that it gives you the information. Please post back if you can see yours, so others know also. If a member has had a warning(s) it will be there whether you can see it or not. Jim

yeah, most just want to see if they have space. But remember the warning point value can be from 1 to ban (10) determined by the amount of rule breaking in that instant. Someone can go on a rant and be gone before they finish. Jim

 

If memory serves me, I believe Doug once asked the same question and it was determined that we don't have the pleasure.... I think?

 

Yes, that is plausible; like I said, it never concerned me, and I was a member a long time before being ask to be a moderator, and if I go to stampexchange.com and sign in where I am just a member, I would have to commit a violation, before I could tell....and that is not my character on a free membership board with experts to read and communicate.

 

I've suggested this before, and been shot down quite firmly, but I'm compelled to point it out again: if moderators and administrators would allow themselves access to a test account, which could be configured with whatever privileges you want, you could easily check what regular users see. You could even carefully delete any posts made from that test account once you're done testing, to ensure that nobody gets confused by "multiple identities".

I understand that CoinTalk has a "one person, one account" rule, and that Doug and Peter interpret that to mean not even moderators or administrators may use a test account. As a result, you can't even find out what we regular users see, except by asking one of us to give you a second-hand report.

I remain absolutely baffled that this is considered "the right way to do things". In every multi-user system I've ever worked on, going back to time-sharing systems from the 1970s, it's a fundamental assumption that administrators have the privilege and responsibility to keep track of how things work for regular users, including occasionally logging in with a regular-user-level account for testing.

But, as I've also said before, I'm happy and grateful for the privilege of participating here, even if I sometimes find Peter and Doug's decisions a bit odd. In the scheme of things, this is a minor objection, greatly outweighed by the positive. (Thanks again, guys!)