Holiday Hugs for Off-Topic Fans

First, please clarify if you are using an LLM to generate text in your replies. That’s currently possibly acceptable, but per the …drum-roll… :drum: Code Of Conduct stealing section:

You may not post output from Large Language Models without giving them proper credit eg. “I copied this from …”

…which after looking at your posts from the past few months, vs. even your return to the forums earlier this year to sell your closed-source (?), third-party services after a 2 year hiatus, there seems to be a change in the length, style and tempo of your generated content.

That said, thank you, again, for all of your past contributions to the FreePBX project and community forums. :frog:

Unfortunately, Discourse default Trust Level settings 0-3 rely on recent activity for automated TL changes, and again, as pointed out before in this thread, your account falls far short of this mark (at least as of earlier today):



For comparison - and admittedly needed to like a few more things this morning myself :heart: :sun_with_face:



Of course there are some big shoes to fill here, but rest assured that one similar area of overlapping responses has been to try and reach out to have a conversation and work it out (as shown in @jfinstrom’s posting of my DM in another large OT thread, my multiple open responses in this thread, etc.)

That is NOT CLEARLY the case at all!

Here’s the first sentence from one (of several) @tonyclewis email messages to @penguinpbx this weekend:

“You are acting as a dictator and you won’t last long behaving like this.”

That’s a threat, plain and simple, and might even constitute fighting words, so @reconwireless please stop enabling @tonyclewis to (potentially) act on it(!) by dismissing the language as something else such as mere oversight, misinterpretation, or miscategorization :eyes:

Also, the word dictator was employed by @tonyclewis previously in multiple forum posts – since hidden – and note that @tonyclewis often uses it as a noun, ergo, name-calling. A potentially more acceptable criticism of ideas and behaviour that you disagree with might make the distinction by using adjectives or other methods in line with the agreeable section of the CoC.

:pray: