Something funny happened to me in the Mandriva forum

[viking60]

Yesterday I experienced something funny in the Norwegian section of the Mandriva forum.
After having started the Tips section (help from the site admins). I encouraged people to write their tips and contributed myself also.
Not brilliant but a nice place to look and maybe find some answers.
Yesterday I discovered that the forum was closed/restricted:
http://forum.mandriva.com/viewforum.php?f=188

"Only members with special rights can view this forum" was the message.

Now this is probably just an error, but it made me think.
Who owns the content of the forum? I sure would be against someone closing a forum with member contributions, to sell it for a personal financial benefit. At least not without the permission of the contributers.
Deleting it would be OK I guess, and within the rights of the moderation team, but shutting the contributors out and only give special members access is a different enchilada IMHO.
I wanted to edit one of my tips and now I have no access
No one would contribute if this was clear up front.

So I would like to take the opportunity to state that you will never be shut out from any content and thread where you have contributed here. Your contribution is considered public, for the benefit of all our members (and surfers).

I have started a thread over in the Mandriva forum to get some views on the principals on this there as well:
http://forum.mandriva.com/viewtopic.php?t=129770

[dedanna1029]

Nice. That's one of the things I love about it so much here, is that we're so open. We keep more of an open-source mind-set here, and I'm hoping to keep that up.

As for the Mandriva forum, well... never really felt that way there. But then they're run by conservative bigots anyway (hate to say so right out but it's true), so what can we expect?

[viking60]

I wonder if it could be a browser language thing. Could you try the first link and see if you get in?

[R_Head]

Nice. That's one of the things I love about it so much here, is that we're so open. We keep more of an open-source mind-set here, and I'm hoping to keep that up.

As for the Mandriva forum, well... never really felt that way there. But then they're run by conservative bigots anyway (hate to say so right out but it's true), so what can we expect?

I do not and very, very, very seldom I engage on Political and Religious discussions.

IMHO, Mandriva is not really affected by the USA's politics.

[dedanna1029]

I wonder if it could be a browser language thing. Could you try the first link and see if you get in?

I tried. It wanted me to login, which I can't.

[dedanna1029]

Nice. That's one of the things I love about it so much here, is that we're so open. We keep more of an open-source mind-set here, and I'm hoping to keep that up.

As for the Mandriva forum, well... never really felt that way there. But then they're run by conservative bigots anyway (hate to say so right out but it's true), so what can we expect?

I do not and very, very, very seldom I engage on Political and Religious discussions.

IMHO, Mandriva is not really affected by the USA's politics.

Well, they are. Viking knows what I'm talking about here. So do a lot of others.

[viking60]

Yeah but there is nothing wrong about being conservative - a lot of good people are, The political conviction is not essential when running a forum. It takes all kinds to make a good discussion.

Conservatives might be wrong, and so may Socialists (In fact they usually are )
Dedanna At least you get the option of logging in, which means the topic is closed to the public -and to me.

[Joste]

I'm not a special member either.

[dedanna1029]

What gets me, is why the hell would anyone lock down tips 'n tricks? Is not the purpose for them to be SEEN by people who need them?

[viking60]

What gets me, is why the hell would anyone lock down tips 'n tricks? Is not the purpose for them to be SEEN by people who need them?

That is a very good question and will remain unanswered.
It was an error and It is fixed now - thanks to the Site Admin (and a little bit to me too, for raising hell about it ) . But I think the principal questions it raises are interesting.
I think every post belongs to the poster when nothing else is agreed upon. If the poster wants it to be public - no one else can make it exclusive.
In an open forum it is fairly obvious that the author meant it to be public.

Starting with a locked forum is OK too, because it is equally obvious that the posters there agree for the content to be exclusive for the forum members.
Changing the forum type in either of those cases would be wrong without the consent of the authors.

[dedanna1029]

Exactly.