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Bug 508643

Summary:	Incorrect wording of message about posting links on forum
Product:	Community	Reporter:	Ed Merks <Ed.Merks>
Component:	Forums and Newsgroups	Assignee:	Forums and Newsgroups inbox <forums-inbox>
Status:	RESOLVED FIXED	QA Contact:
Severity:	normal
Priority:	P3	CC:	eclipse-bugs, webmaster
Version:	unspecified
Target Milestone:	---
Hardware:	PC
OS:	Windows 7
Whiteboard:	stalebug

Description Ed Merks

2016-12-04 05:55:42 EST

In the recent thread, the user claims that the message about posting links is worded as:

You can only use links to eclipse.org sites while you have fewer than 1 message.

I think perhaps it's in correct in two ways.  I think perhaps the user can always post links to eclipse.org sites.  I'm not sure exactly the current conditions that must apply before the user can post links to non-eclipse.org sites.

The thread I refer to is this one:

https://www.eclipse.org/forums/index.php?t=msg&th=1082864&goto=1749111&#msg_1749111

Please consider rewording the message to be correct and accurate.

Comment 1 Ed Merks

2016-12-04 05:57:28 EST

By the way, it would also be useful (according to this user, and that makes sense to me) to get a message about links during message preview not just on submit...

Comment 2 Eric Rizzo

2016-12-05 09:53:39 EST

This is not the first time this has come up as confusing. I'm pretty sure the message has actually been "refined" at least once, but I don't have the energy to go search for the related bugs.

I suggest the message be: "When you are a new user (fewer than X messages), you can not include links to external sites. You may always include links to eclipse.org pages, however."

Comment 3 Eclipse Genie

2018-11-27 15:21:01 EST

This bug hasn't had any activity in quite some time. Maybe the problem got resolved, was a duplicate of something else, or became less pressing for some reason - or maybe it's still relevant but just hasn't been looked at yet.

If you have further information on the current state of the bug, please add it. The information can be, for example, that the problem still occurs, that you still want the feature, that more information is needed, or that the bug is (for whatever reason) no longer relevant.

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The automated Eclipse Genie.

Comment 4 Eclipse Webmaster

2018-12-04 10:44:43 EST

I've updated the message based on Erics suggestion.

-M.