#3654 Ask Fedora uses flags to show a user's location
Closed: Will Not/Can Not fix 6 years ago Opened 11 years ago by ryanlerch.

Ask Fedora currently uses flags to represent a user's location. Fedora has a fairly strict policy on flags:

https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Package_Maintainers_Flags_Policy

It would be better just not to show the flags at all.


The package maintainers policy on flags as is suspended for a long time as noted in the link you have provided and it is also specific to packages. Does Fedora Project on the whole have a policy position against using flags? I don't think there is one. If you are interested, you could ask Fedora Board about this.

I don't have strong opinions either way but I am just wondering

Having a flag to show a location is also not the best idea, IMHO, as it also implies nationality. It is just a bit wierd if the user lives in a country different to their nationality.

There's no guideline against flags currently, but I agree it's not good for a number of reasons.

Perhaps we could talk with upstream and make flags optional? Perhaps replace with a scaled gravatar? Or some kind of pool of them or something?

It is already a admin setting IIRC. Feel free to disable it if that's the consensus.

I don't see it in the interface... but ok.

I'd vote to disable it... we can wait and see if anyone objects? :)

Hi,

I don't think flags have much use really. Can an admin on the production instance disable them? (I don't have admin access on prod.)

Thanks,
Warm regards,
Ankur

I looked a while back and could not find any way to disable it in the interface.

If anyone else can, feel free to disable it, otherwise we may have to ask upstream how.

I looked at the settings in staging and I couldn't find a setting either. Question asked upstream:

http://askbot.org/en/question/10904/how-do-i-disable-showing-country-flags/

Thanks,
Ankur

This is still present in 0.7.51.

Perhaps with the Fedora theme we could remove them?

I agree on removing them. Maybe this is another issue that can be resolved by migrating to discourse?

Listed as to be closed in today's infrastructure meeting.

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- Issue close_status updated to: Will Not/Can Not fix

6 years ago

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