repost on providing software review to Linux Mint

[brains ironically]

Apparently, if I don't come back to the forum every 30 minutes, my thread gets locked because I'm 'trolling.'

So, here it is again.

I was in the SOFTWARE MANAGER, I wanted to leave a review, the link took me to the mint forums, then i got the message that to leave feedback, I have to make an account and to make an account I need the access code from my account page.

pic clearly says EXACTLY what I said: it wants a code from the account page to make an account.

 

[CaffeineAddict]

my thread gets locked because I'm 'trolling.

Not responding to replies, ignoring people, not following instructions you're given, not being active in your own thread for a week or more, how should this be called? negligence and irresponsibility and wasting other peoples' time.

pic clearly says EXACTLY what I said: it wants a code from the account page to make an account.

You're also not following what the pictures you posted tell you to do.

Obviously you need to login to Mint forums to get the access details.

 

[brains ironically]

Not responding to replies, ignoring people, not following instructions you're given, not being active in your own thread for a week or more, how should this be called? negligence and irresponsibility and wasting other peoples' time.


You're also not following what the pictures you posted tell you to do.

Obviously you need to login to Mint forums to get the access details.

nothing you said is true. I was immediately attacked as a troll. I wasn't looking for anyone to tell me what to do, I was telling you what my experience was.

I CAN'T login to the forums because I don't have an account, and I can't get an account because it tells me, right there in that pic, that I have to log in to get the access code to get an account.

what are you seeing?

 

[f33dm3bits]

pic clearly says EXACTLY what I said: it wants a code from the account page to make an account.

Thanks for the screenshots. I actually tried what you tried and ran into that same thing about the code. But if you read carefully it tells you what to do which is this.

To prevent SPAM bots from harming our community, we now require a registration code. Login to the Linux Mint forums and go to your user control panel. Your registration code will be written at the bottom of the panel.

It's telling you you need to register an account on the Linux Mint forums first, which is here.

https://forums.linuxmint.com

Once registered there and logged in, go to your profile and the "Overview" tab. At the bottom there you have a header that says "Your community registration code".

Click on copy and use that code to register on the registration page where you are seeing that message about needing a registration code.

After you are registering with that code on community.linuxmint.com you should be able to leave a review.

 

[MzQ1NjExN2]

Thanks for the screenshots. I actually tried what you tried and ran into that same thing about the code. But if you read carefully it tells you what to do which is this.

It's telling you you need to register an account on the Linux Mint forums first, which is here.

https://forums.linuxmint.com

Once registered there and logged in, go to your profile and the "Overview" tab. At the bottom there you have a header that says "Your community registration code". Click on copy and use that code to register on the registration page where you are seeing that message about needing a registration code.

You beat me to it. I'm using Linux Mint on a machine and came across that code requirement as well. It looks like the forum account is separate from the account the OP is talking about. I successfully created an account for the Linux Mint forums as you mentioned above. OP would have to do the same thing in order to get the code.

brains ironically you have to go the forums.linuxmint.com page and look for the register button and then proceed with creating an account there first. Then you copy the code:

and then proceed with the sign up page from your screenshot which requires the code. I just did the whole thing and it worked:

So there are two sign ups required. Not one. OP thinks there is only one that is the issue.

 

[MzQ1NjExN2]

Well two people just did it. So nothing wrong on Mint's end.

 

[wizardfromoz]

Apparently, if I don't come back to the forum every 30 minutes, my thread gets locked because I'm 'trolling.'

That is a misrepresentation of the truth. No Staff Member said you were a troll,

The reason for your thread being locked was as given by me.

In any event, I am locking this Thread for now, as it is currently a waste of human resources, in the absence of civil input from the OP.

If the OP wishes to provide same, he can DM me, or other Staff Member, and it can be considered to re-open the Thread.

...and days, I believe, not 30 minutes.

pic clearly says EXACTLY what I said: it wants a code from the account page to make an account.

Thanks for those pictures, now that was not so hard, was it?

Now I believe we are all clear, and two of our Members have outlined above how the problem can be overcome.

I am modifying your Thread title to better reflect the subject matter.

Wizard

 

[f33dm3bits]

Now I believe we are all clear, and two of our Members have outlined above how the problem can be overcome.

Which is just some basic English reading skills, even for those who's second language is English. However it could be that OP knows more than 2 languages but I didn't get that impression.

so I tried to get help from their 'mint community' forums, and it forced me to create an account at matrix.org to access the forums.
so i did that, and then when i logged in there... NO MINT COMMUNITIES.

and this is exactly why linux is always going to be a tiny sliver of the world, because even getting help is a freaking joke built on rickety pile of garbage.

You were going in quite aggressively and stating your frustration in a negative way, because of your last sentence. That's why no one took your seriously. You could have left the last sentence out and shared screens-shots instead which you did in this post. The problem ended up being that you didn't read correctly what was asked of you by the Linux Mint Community site. Which is:

To prevent SPAM bots from harming our community, we now require a registration code. Login to the Linux Mint forums and go to your user control panel. Your registration code will be written at the bottom of the panel.

Not having read that correctly is not a Linux Mint problem, whether you're first language is English or not, as the official Linux Mint forum language is English as well.