you need a specific amount of rep to create a gallery chat room. if you dont have enough rep you can't give explicit write access.

@rlemon: most people don't use up to date guides. I see this in the nginx support rooms all the time, people are using guides from Intrepid for setting up their stuff, and explosivity occurs on systems when that's done. I agree, we should help with old releases, but we have to be careful in how we do that. Someone asking for help with, say, Intrepid systems, well, that's just so outdated its not even relevant. Someone asking about Maverick may be relevant, but we should mention its EOL and no longer supported or updated.

Agreed, see comments on chat and my comment to this question clarifying what scope i'm talking about

And to comment: I am only discussing how to handle new questions about EOL'd releases. Not modifying/handling old questions about now-EOL'd releases.

I should note I'm on the Bug Squad, so if I see any bugs against EOL releases I ask if the bugs exist in the latest stable of ubuntu, because otherwise the bug doesnt get fixed ever.

See my answer here jokerdino, some info exists there that you may want to read :P

@William reputation here on this site doesn't particularly influence membership, rather the quality of the contributions you have done drive the membership decision.

Agreed, i guess nobody's bothered to blacklist it.

We'd need more context as to what badges you'd be looking for, without the details we can't know what you're after.

I've still got that bugtracker if you want it, Oli. In case this thread gets overly difficult to handle ;)