A forum moderator (Mike Hewson) posted in that thread. Round here, the moderators are extremely technically savvy and in good touch with the project - and most importantly, have a great sense of humour. I'll leave it to them to decide whether to leave the typo for future historians to chuckle over. The news is accurate, which is the important thing.
(To see what I mean about the technical knowledge of the mods, check the number of mod tags in, for example, the skygrid and vizualisation threads).
Only project staff can post front page news items. Typos like this have occurred in the past and, to my recollection, have not been fixed, where there is no real impact on the validity of the information. On a previous occasion quite some time ago, I recall one of the staff mentioning that it was actually quite difficult to "edit" a news item, so that a simple typo should just be ignored.
If it was vital to correct the detail, I believe it would be a new news item with the correct information that would get posted rather than an actual correction of the existing message. Consequently, I've just accepted that editing must indeed be difficult, although I have no direct knowledge of this.
Well I thought it was good for a laugh, and easily spotted. Nothing mission critical. :-)
Aside : I wouldn't assume we haven't read any particular thread. Personally I read all new posts, by checking in at least twice a day, everyday ( the only exceptions have been offline problems like business troubles and bushfires ). Whether you'd see any evidence of response is another matter. Fortunately as a group we cover all timezones quite neatly ( so low latency for fire-suppression ), and for that matter different strengths in the various aspects of the project.
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We have a moderator's email group/list that functions as our back-channnel. That's where you'd want to be a fly-on-the-wall. :-)
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Cheers, Mike.
( edit ) And thanks for your nice remarks, Richard. The brown paper bag will be at the usual drop point .....
I have made this letter longer than usual because I lack the time to make it shorter ...
... and my other CPU is a Ryzen 5950X :-) Blaise Pascal
Front page news has wrong date
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Er, yes. See good morning - somebody beat you to it by two-and-a-half days.
Thanks Richard! It also seems
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Thanks Richard!
It also seems they haven't read the thread named "good morning", i wouldn't read it either.
I have zero RAC, will you PM someone in charge?
John.
A forum moderator (Mike
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A forum moderator (Mike Hewson) posted in that thread. Round here, the moderators are extremely technically savvy and in good touch with the project - and most importantly, have a great sense of humour. I'll leave it to them to decide whether to leave the typo for future historians to chuckle over. The news is accurate, which is the important thing.
(To see what I mean about the technical knowledge of the mods, check the number of mod tags in, for example, the skygrid and vizualisation threads).
RE: I have zero RAC, will
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Hi John,
Thanks for your concern about this.
Only project staff can post front page news items. Typos like this have occurred in the past and, to my recollection, have not been fixed, where there is no real impact on the validity of the information. On a previous occasion quite some time ago, I recall one of the staff mentioning that it was actually quite difficult to "edit" a news item, so that a simple typo should just be ignored.
If it was vital to correct the detail, I believe it would be a new news item with the correct information that would get posted rather than an actual correction of the existing message. Consequently, I've just accepted that editing must indeed be difficult, although I have no direct knowledge of this.
Cheers,
Gary.
Well I thought it was good
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Well I thought it was good for a laugh, and easily spotted. Nothing mission critical. :-)
Aside : I wouldn't assume we haven't read any particular thread. Personally I read all new posts, by checking in at least twice a day, everyday ( the only exceptions have been offline problems like business troubles and bushfires ). Whether you'd see any evidence of response is another matter. Fortunately as a group we cover all timezones quite neatly ( so low latency for fire-suppression ), and for that matter different strengths in the various aspects of the project.
Cheers, Mike.
( edit ) And thanks for your nice remarks, Richard. The brown paper bag will be at the usual drop point .....
I have made this letter longer than usual because I lack the time to make it shorter ...
... and my other CPU is a Ryzen 5950X :-) Blaise Pascal
Its ok, it should be fixed
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Its ok, it should be fixed soon.
John.