Generally I find Ask pretty helpful. But today it provided two links to posts which I can’t access. I assume they have been tidied into a category with restricted access - a pity, here, because they looked like they might have been useful.
I asked it, “when a moderator rejects a flag, does the post get unhidden” and it gave me general information about non-Discourse forums. Shouldn’t all the advice be assumed to be about discourse? What is the point of the tool if it isn’t oriented that way?
I’ve found it’s a lot more effective than searching through meta for answers—i can toss it a single natural language query (like “How do I make Discourse do [thing]?”) and get an answer made up of summarized bits from the same 3-4 meta searches I would have eventually stumbled upon, but without me having to spend the time to find them. I definitely plan on continuing to use it when I have “how do I” or “is it possible to” kinds of Discourse questions.
I was wrong before when I said those messages don’t apply on ask.discourse— they still do because it is powered by Discourse. You are being hit by the normal spam rate limiting.
Usually the “too similar” message only happens when the post you’re trying to make is identical to an earlier post… I also notice that you submitted two identical flags, which might have been the cause of the “creating topics too quickly” error… perhaps some messages were attempting to send twice in rapid succession due to a flaky internet connection? this could potentially explain both issues
Is there any way to tell the model that queries for the DataExplorer should never end with a ;. I know it seems like a small thing, but when I have to go through several iterations I’m constantly forgetting to remove it.
The “topics”, “my posts”, “categories”, “my messages”, and “filter” do not serve any use on the site either, as the Ask Discourse site is mainly for Discourse AI chat and not for making topics. Those pages are empty for 99% of people and should redirect back to the AI bot if you are a normal member. Otherwise, the website functions well for asking an AI questions.
It’s oddly easy, let me show you through screen recording.
There are a couple ways to access it, as the sidebar isn’t always defaulting to the AI bot one especially in user settings. Clicking all questions, fonts and appearance, or account settings uses a different sidebar than the intended one, that lets you access the unused topics section or unused screens
Note to get back to the ai chat, you click AI bot or the logo.
button.
