I can't see the edit or flag options to someone else's questions here, on AskOpenstack. Am I short of a certain threshold reputation for this or is this just meant for Web Admins even though I see badges for flagging posts?
You need 200 karma to edit posts by other people. I am lowering it to 100 and see if that helps. Flag as offensive requires karma 5. Upvote requires karma 1, basically you just need to have an account. These values should be visible on http://ask.openstack.org/en/faq/ but that page is customized here and that info disappeared (you can see it on askbot vanilla with the default values). Filing a bug report, as the navigation is also confusing (help vs faq pages).
I have karma 97 but I don't see any option to "flag as offensive" to someone else's post and http://ask.openstack.org/en/faq gives a 404 and 200 karma seems to be a very large karma value, since editing should be possible for a fairly new user, according to me.
200 karma isn't that much, but it's an issue in this community because it hasn't reached a critical mass yet. There are less than 10 users with >200), of 30 questions on the front page only 3 have upvotes, many more of those have answers but usually the answer has no votes. Makes it hard to build.
I don't think the solution is to change the karma limit but to encourage the use of the site in the way StackExchange style sites were intended to be. Contrast the info on help here with http://askubuntu.com/about If more users were using voting/marking correct then 200 karma wouldn't be an issue.
I'm not sure why. You will get a good response for these sort of questions by lodging a bug at https://bugs.launchpad.net/openstack-community/ which is used by the developers of ask.openstack.
Asked: 2013-06-26 00:11:59 -0500
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Last updated: Jul 02 '13
I assume it's threshold based but I can't find anywhere in Askbot where it actually tells you what the thresholds for various permissions are. This is how that information is displayed on StackExchange sites:
http://stackoverflow.com/privileges
Exactly! I wonder why the same is not reflected here. There is no way you can let the admins know of any wrongdoings, except a down-vote(not good) or a comment(not effective).