When receiving a message from the user “system”, there is the option to respond. Is such a response going anywhere? If not who to contact?
I’ve moved this into the “this side feedback” category as it’s a Discourse rather than an OSM question.
However, I suspect that the answer depends on context. “system” is used for various things - one example is posts that Discourse itself flags as potential spam, in which case it wouldn’t make sense to “reply”.
What sort of message were you thinking about replying to?
It’s not “discourse” itself. It’s by staff.
System is a special user used by Discourse itself. The most common place to see it is when a user has deleted their account but the posts remain. Without knowing the answers to SomeoneElse’s questions we can’t help you.
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I think I answered it. The “system” user sent a message “Flagged post removed by staff”. I responded to that, but did it go anywhere?
If not, how do I contact the staff who did remove the post?
Interestingly my removed post agreed with a forum moderator’s that he shouldn’t violate forum guidelines.
No - as I said above, the answer depends on context. Some “system” messages absolutely are automatically generated by Discourse itself as a result of settings in this Discourse implementation (and I gave an example of one above). There have also been examples where explicit human action has caused “system” messages to be sent to users. That s why I asked you “What sort of message were you thinking about replying to?”.
More generally, please take a step back and ask yourself what you want out of this interaction. Do you want people to help you or not? If the answer is that you do want help please do not say that an answer that says “it depends” is “wrong” (and not answer any follow-up questions trying to help clarify your question). If you don’t, well, the door is over there.
This reply from me might not seem very polite. The reason that I wrote it like this is that lots of polite replies from lots of people trying to help you understand that your views may be your views, and perhaps other people may have more experience about the questions that you were asking (like in the various relation / street sagas such as here). You have been spectacularly rude on a number of occasions - I thought maybe a more direct approach might work.
You now have a choice. You can help us to answer your question by answering the question I asked above, or you can complain about what I’ve just written here and people will just ignore you, or worse. You might even consider apologising. Your choice.
Edited to add:
You don’t. You try and write things that won’t get flagged by other users in the future.
If your query relates to a specific post in one of the forum subcategories, please contact the relevant category moderators.
If it’s something more general, then the “The Side Feedback” subforum is definitely the right place. If it shouldn’t be public, please contact @moderators for general matters. The moderator team will then consult with one another if necessary.
There would certainly be further levels of escalation, but hopefully we won’t need them. Otherwise, there’s nothing to add to @SomeoneElse last post.
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Ok. Thanks for your help. I did that. In the meantime, I found the links at About - OpenStreetMap Community Forum
Ideally the “reply” button shouldn’t be there if it doesn’t work.
BTW. the “rude” comparison wasn’t brought up by me. The research presented since seems to confirm my point about the segments only being separate at OSM.
I’ve no idea what you’re on about. If in doubt, it doesn’t belong here.
I’ve disabled the “Enable system message replies” setting. I believe this should remove the “reply” buttons from messages by the “system” user (except for users with elevated privileges).
Meta support thread for context:
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