Mint Forum Hates Humans ...apparently?

SparkleKitten421964

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I try to register to the Mint forum (forums.linuxmint.com).... after diligently doing 4 or 5 captchas, I get a msg saying I have been identified as spam, contact administrator. Yes, it is characteristic of spammers to do multiple successful captchas, isn't it? Okay...

I click on Contact Administrator and get a message that the contact form has been disabled.

It provides a link to email the administrator, so I click it and I get a msg that the website wants to open a program on my computer.

Classy, super classy, Mint guys. Fine, I say open whatever program, let's see what this is.

It opens Thunderbird, which I don't use. And of course, still no contact info. I already have Proton synched with the Proton email program, but I should sign my email into Thunderbird, because the Mint Forum Administrator never, ever wants to talk to a person who wouldn't use Thunderbird.

I search everywhere. There is no contact info anywhere on the internet on how to contact the Mint Forum Admin.

This comes off as extremely hostile. Don't need humans, don't want their input. No humans to talk to. Can't notify the forum there's a problem with joining the forum because I cannot join the forum. I'm at a loss.

Ability to participate in the official forum for a distro is, I think, kind of a pass/fail on whether someone should adopt that distro. I could jump through the additional hoop of signing my email account into Thunderbird, but I'm kind of pissed off that this distro 100% doesn't want to speak to anyone who doesn't do this thing. It comes off as super hostile and arrogant to me. Like the inconvenience of thousands of new adopters, adding up to many hundreds of hours trying to figure out what hoop to jump through - to make them do this pointless task - is nothing to them.
 
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I haven't used the Mint forums for at least 7 years, but it is considered one of the best distribution forums out there.
If you have a problem you can always ask here, we have many Mint users as member
 
I haven't used the Mint forums for at least 7 years, but it is considered one of the best distribution forums out there.
If you have a problem you can always ask here, we have many Mint users as member
Thank you most kindly.

lol I just deleted a small rant before replying - I'll leave it at - I don't think this is very friendly nor even effective for this to be the process encountered when registering for a distro's forum.

I switched 2 machines over from Windows to Mint 22 about 6 months ago and have been learning. I noticed, for a lot of what I would consider to be commonplace/common sense questions/problems, the most recent discussion threads on that forum would be older version - v19, v17 stuff like that.

I wondered why, but this would appear to explain it. However long they've been running their registration process this way is however long they've been missing out on new community members.

I guess if you or anybody happen to be forum members over there and would like to re-post what I had to say on their newb section, that'd be kinda cool. Or if anybody knows how to let their admin know what happened, pass it along? Anyone know their forum admin email address?
 
I've been on the Mint forum from early on and never had a problem. with it.
So not sure what's causing the problem for you.
 
It has been a number of years, but the Mint forums were once hacked - ceding passwords, email addresses, usernames, etc...

But, there's not much we can do here to help you there. You're free to ask questions here.
 
It has been a number of years, but the Mint forums were once hacked - ceding passwords, email addresses, usernames, etc...

But, there's not much we can do here to help you there. You're free to ask questions here.

 
It opens Thunderbird, which I don't use. And of course, still no contact info. I already have Proton synched with the Proton email program, but I should sign my email into Thunderbird, because the Mint Forum Administrator never, ever wants to talk to a person who wouldn't use Thunderbird.

I too use proton. Which by default means I use ProtonVPN frequently. Therefore, I must ask. Were you connected to your ProtonVPN? If yes, that's your problem. If no, idk I give up. To much pointy fingery stuff going on here.

Anytime I'm using a VPN the Capchas are 100x more adamant that I might be a bot. That's just the nature of the beast. I disconnect VPN, do what I gotta do, and move along. I certainly don't blame Google or pretty much any other website for the Captcha response to my VPN.
 
There are collective blacklists that some websites look for your email when you try to register, maybe someone put your email there from some other forum, therefore try another email.

Personally I'm banned from Mint forum because when I was using it, I wasn't very happy with it and expressed my frustration there so they banned me

You don't miss much, here there are knowledgeable people who can help you out
 

Hey SparkleKitten421964


I have had problems with captchas also. I found disabling UBlockOrigin worked and now get in every time, after which I re-enable it.

Good luck

Vektor
 

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