I don't think this adds anything of value to the forum

AlW · March 13, 2019, 1:42pm

Just takes up screen space and distracts from meaningful content.

ivelin.peychev · March 13, 2019, 1:49pm

This feels a lot like the cosmetic stuff added to CSGO instead of solving the issues.

davidcockey · March 13, 2019, 3:39pm

Another no value message has appeared.

My guess is these are an “enhancement” Discourse has added rather than anything McNeel has done. However it would be appreciated if McNeel could turn them off.

chanley · March 13, 2019, 3:49pm

I haven’t seen those messages. Is it perhaps some type of setting in your profile you could change?
EDIT:
nevermind, I just saw one.

Helvetosaur · March 13, 2019, 3:50pm

Yep, been meaning to comment about this. Generally, it seems that Discourse has hit its peak and is starting to slide downhill. Seems like the crew have run out of useful ideas and are starting to implement marginal features of questionable utility…

ChrisK · March 13, 2019, 4:10pm

I agree.

davidcockey · March 13, 2019, 4:39pm

@wim Can someone at McNeel turn off these superfluous messages?

andheum · March 13, 2019, 5:00pm

IDK, I think this message is actually a useful warning:

Jarek · March 13, 2019, 5:17pm

Agree, not very useful info. Hope it could be disabled.

stevebaer · March 13, 2019, 5:49pm

I’m sure I can turn this feature off. I just can’t quite figure out which option it is in the system preferences.

encephalon · March 13, 2019, 6:25pm

i think its ok if you’d just turn them all off, what can happen much

sam · March 13, 2019, 8:47pm

See:

A lot of fidelity here Steve, you can just turn it on for TL3/4 if you want, disable some of the feature in a theme component and so on.

I recommend living with it for a bit though, it helps to be nice to newbies it sets a great tone to future interactions.

Jarek · March 13, 2019, 8:55pm

PS. Hope we can all try to be nice all the time, not only to newbies…

Helvetosaur · March 13, 2019, 8:56pm

We’re always nice to newbies here…

davidcockey · March 13, 2019, 9:56pm

I try to be nice, or at least civil, to everyone here. It can be difficult at times though.

sam · March 13, 2019, 10:10pm

I have come to rely on this callout quite a lot now with my interactions on meta.discourse.org. It is not like I am a terrible person and incredibly rude but not to newbies. It is just that the tiny bit of extra context helps me.

This user just signed up to our site, and took the plunge and wrote a topic, I can put a tiny bit more effort into understanding the user is not aware of all the existing norms and features, say hello, say “welcome to Discourse support” and so on.

stevebaer · March 14, 2019, 1:09am

What is the setting called? I can’t find it on the admin panel

sam · March 15, 2019, 1:01am

Simplest is bumping up min post notice tl to trust level 4, then only staff will see it.

If you feel super urged to remove it for everyone including staff go with .post-notice { display: none; } in all the themes.

JimCarruthers · March 15, 2019, 2:13am

Yeah, I don’t actually contribute at all like I used to but I’m getting too old to care what strangers on the Internet think about my tone. Especially…bah better not.

stevebaer · March 15, 2019, 2:59am

Thanks Sam. I’ll just bump this to TL 3 and see what people think.