Why Do Some People Believe They Have the Right to Dominate and Suppress Others ? 1

[ALK2415]

I was shocked seeing the BIG BANNER "you don't have the privilege to post here ?
your site is Great, just don't corrupted it with destructive ideas from British dinosaurs clubs

 

[GregLocock]

? I've only been here 20 years and have never seen a message like that. Perhaps there are private forums which are invite only, maybe, for posting? A screenshot would be good.

 

[GregLocock]

Perhaps you are talking about this one?



It is using privilege in the computing sense read/write/delete privileges, not the woke social sense.
What it means is that the Group in question is read only until you join the Group, which may be by invite only.

 

[Denial]

I struck this message for the first time a couple of days ago, trying to contribute a question to the Engineering Language/Grammar Skills forum. How does one "engineer" an invitation to such a forum?

 

[IRstuff]

If I go here https://www.eng-tips.com/group/engineering-language-grammar-skills.1/info there's a button for leaving the group. I presume that there's a button for joining the groupd if you are not already a member

 

[Denial]

Thanks, IR. That page did have a Join Group button, which morphed into a Leave Group button after I clicked upon it.

I do not yet actually have write-access to the site of course. This hopefully follows once the box is examined for any black balls.

Blackballing - Wikipedia

en.wikipedia.org

 

[Jon]

HI Denial

I did invite you to the group a few days ago and it appears you have accepted. Are you still not able to post in the group?

Thanks